Robert Louis Stevenson
38 quotations
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
There is but one art, to omit.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
Everyone lives by selling something.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.