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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The world has no room for cowards.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
- Robert Louis Stevenson;" 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.
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
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
