Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

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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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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

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Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

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Everyone lives by selling something.

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