Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The obscurest epoch is today.

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

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

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

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Wine is bottled poetry.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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?

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.