Quotes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The world has no room for cowards.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

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

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
-Robert Louis Stevenson