Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.