To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. By Robert Louis Stevenson About change, Education, Learning, Wise
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. By Robert Louis Stevenson Empowering, Freedom, Inspirational, Motivational, Wise
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson Action, Inevitable, Retrospect
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson Duty, Happiness, Inspirational
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. By Robert Louis Stevenson Funny, Joke