Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Everyone lives by selling something.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I've a grand memory for forgetting.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

— 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

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson