Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."

"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"Wine is bottled poetry."

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."

"Nothing like a little judicious levity."

"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

"Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

"There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect."

"The world has no room for cowards."

"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."

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

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords."

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."

"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."