Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

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Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, 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 of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

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Take care of each other.

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If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

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I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

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We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards

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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

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