Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in November 13, 1850 / Died in December 3, 1894 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move, to get down off this featherbed of civilisation and to find the globe granite underneath and strewn with cutting flints.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake;...
A friend is a present you give yourself.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them ...
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
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.
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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.
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
