Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Everyone lives by selling something.

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The world has no room for cowards.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.