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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand...

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...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably...

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

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

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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...

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

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,...

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.