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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

The saints are the sinners who keep on going

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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...

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.