Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can nev...

From the bonny bells of heather,They brewed a drink long syne,Was sweeter far than honey,Was stronge...

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face ...

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us o...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

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

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

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so w...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing.

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In ev...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Courage is the footstool of the Virtues upon which they stand.

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

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

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or fame the gods have ca...

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. ...

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest...

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic a...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets a...

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

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

Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...

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

And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something."Th...

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on betwe...

He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves...

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and ...

Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face...

Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware...

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

I have resolved that from this day on I will do all the business I can honestly have all the fun I...

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in...

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is alw...

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

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in ...

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

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so ha...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your ...

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and ...

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years ...

Wherever we are it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else and whatever we do however well we...

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

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambit...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.

Wine is bottled poetry.

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality ...

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

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There is but one art to omit.

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

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or...

Wine is bottled poetry

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the abse...

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

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to...

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

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

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duti...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousand...

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

The VagabondGive to me the life I love,Let the lave go by me,Give the jolly heaven aboveAnd the bywa...

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

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they...

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

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, an...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

No baggage - there was the secret of existence.

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of ...

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

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