Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

 quotes - You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

 quotes - Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

 quotes - The world has no room for cowards.

“The world has no room for cowards.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

 quotes - No man is useless while he has a friend.

“No man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

— 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

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

— 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

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”

— 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

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

— 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

“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

— 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

“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

“To forget oneself is to be happy.”

— 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