Tag: Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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

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

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

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