"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.
I travel for travel's sake.
The great affair is to move."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than
to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"When a torrent sweeps a man against
a boulder, you must expect him to scream,
and you need not be surprised
if the scream is sometimes a theory."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Our business in this world is not to succeed,
but to continue to fail in good spirits."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Keep your fears to yourself, but
share your courage with others."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"You cannot run away from weakness;
you must some time fight it out or
perish; and if that be so, why not now,
and where you stand?"
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"We live in an ascending scale when
we live happily one thing leading
to another in an endless series."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"To be wholly devoted to
some intellectual exercise
is to have succeeded in life."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"A friend is a present you give to yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"Some people swallow the universe like a pill;
they travel on through the world, like
smiling images pushed from behind."
-Robert Louis Stevenson