Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Quotes

• 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.