Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?