Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

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A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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