Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?
- 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
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson