Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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The world has no room for cowards.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

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The essence of love is kindness.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

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Make up your mind to be happy.

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I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

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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

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

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

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