Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in November 13, 1850 / Died in December 3, 1894 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself; share your courage with others.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Wine is bottled poetry.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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.
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
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.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
