Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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.