Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

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.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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.

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.

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.

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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.