Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson