Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

To forget oneself is to be happy.