Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

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.

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

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

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

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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.

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

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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?

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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

To forget oneself is to be happy.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

No man is useless while he has a friend.