Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

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The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

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In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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We can only know others by ourselves.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

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There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

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The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

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

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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

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There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

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

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

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