Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Children are certainly too good to be true.

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My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

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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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Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

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Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

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There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

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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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I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

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

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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

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

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The essence of love is kindness.

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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

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

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There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

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