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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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

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

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...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your...

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.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

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...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

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.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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...

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,...

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.

Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

In this world, no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are...

In this world, no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are...