Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Friends Quotes

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

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

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

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

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

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

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...

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...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good...

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good...

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...

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

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

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

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream,...

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.