Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

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

The obscurest epoch is today.

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

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

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

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.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.