Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

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

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.

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

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

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

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

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

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.