quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and acomplished his tasks, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauties nor failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he has; whose life is an inspiration; whose life is a benediction."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Everyone should always have two books with him, one to read and one to write in."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"To be what we are capable of becoming, and to achieve what we are capable of achieving, is the only end of life. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"But of works of art little can be said.
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— Robert Louis Stevenson

"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."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still."
— Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics))

"I have met wicked men and fools, a good many of both; and I believe that both get paid in the end; but the fools first. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
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— Robert Louis Stevenson