Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To forget oneself is to be happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson