Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in November 13, 1850 / Died in December 3, 1894 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
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 obscurest epoch is to-day.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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?
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
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.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shal...
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
