Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Wine is bottled poetry.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.