Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
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?
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.
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!