Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to anther.

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.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.