Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Everyone lives by selling something.

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

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

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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.

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

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.

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.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

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.