Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Under the wide and starry sky,Dig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,And the hunter home from the hill.

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

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

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.

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

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,Nor a friend to know me;All I ask, the heaven aboveAnd the road below me.

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.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.