Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

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Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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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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If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

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Take care of each other.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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