Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotes

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
A friend is a present you give yourself.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
You can't touch pitch and not be mucked.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.
Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Wine is bottled poetry.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The world is so full of a number of things
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.