71 Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson


The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson on good

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson on good

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson on good

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson on good

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson on great

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 on great

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 on great

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson on great

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 on health

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson on health

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson on inspirational

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 on inspirational

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson on legal

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson on life

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson on life

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson on life

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson on life

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson on love

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson on love

So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson on love