Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Sit loosely in the saddle.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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

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We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

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

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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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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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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

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

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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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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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