Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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.

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.

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

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

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 forget oneself is to be happy.

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

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

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.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

Everyone lives by selling something.

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

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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.