Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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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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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Live life to the fullest.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

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The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

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There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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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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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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