Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

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You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

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Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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