Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

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

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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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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My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

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After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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