Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
- 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
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson