Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

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

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.