Robert Louis Stevenson quotes - page 2

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ice and iron cannot be welded.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
Robert Louis Stevenson
The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.
Robert Louis Stevenson