Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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The true success is to labour.

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We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

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You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

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Am I no a bonny fighter?

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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

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

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This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

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Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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