Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and poet

“The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.” (from “Crabbed Age and Youth, and Other Essays”)

Nov. 13, 1850-Dec. 3, 1894