Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

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

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.