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All Quotes by author - Robert Louis Stevenson

" Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. "

" A friend is a gift you give yourself. "

" All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. "

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

" An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. "

" Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. "

" Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. "

" Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. "

" Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. "

" Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. "

" Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. "

" Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. "

" Every man has a sane spot somewhere. "

" Everyone lives by selling something. "

" 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. "

" For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. "

" 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. "

" He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. "

" I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. "

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

" If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. "

" I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. "

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

" In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "

" I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. "

" It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. "

" It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. "

" It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. "

" It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "

" It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "

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