Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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 difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.