Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.

 Robert Louis Stevenson, in  Food and Drink

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

 Robert Louis Stevenson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

 Robert Louis Stevenson, in  Happiness and Misery