Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

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There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

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We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

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Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

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If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

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In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

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If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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