Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Love Quotes

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there...

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by...

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is...

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is...

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what...

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what...

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.