To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
Robert Louis StevensonHope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis StevensonI lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Robert Louis Stevenson