Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes (40 Quotes)

Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

There is but one art, to omit.

Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road,

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life

An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy but her manners were excellent.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature

By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations to hear the chimes at midnight to see the sunrise in town and country to be converted at a revival to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel

We're getting hit with more larcenies and home invasions and we have to get more people on the road to stop it, ... We have to adjust the shortages created by the budget cuts and hiring freeze.

This school has been here since 1904, and has been using the same teaching methodology that they used in 1904, ... Here in 2005. I said that's just ridiculous. We need a change the paradigm, change the way we teach, break out of our comfort zone, and do something new.

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

I feel very strongly about putting questions it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil unless perhaps the two were the same thing

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

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.

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

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.