Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

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

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

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

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

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

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.