Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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No man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers by to come and love us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple tart.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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If we take matrimony at it’s lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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