"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

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

"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
— 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

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

""Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?"

"'Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!" "
— Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)

"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

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)

"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

"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"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."
— 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

"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly I die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor; home from the see,
And the hunter home from the hill."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

"You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?"
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"you can not run away from a weakness you must fight it or perish and if that be so why not now and were you stand"
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Life is so full of a number of things. We all should really be happy as kings."
— 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

""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. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."



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— Robert Louis Stevenson

"I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea."
— 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)

"No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)

"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

"But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were.""
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"you can not run away from weakness; you must fight it out... or perish."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
— Robert Louis Stevenson (Kidnapped)

"Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"I have been made to learn that the doom and burthen of our life is bound for ever on man's shoulder, and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"Wine is bottled poetry."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

"For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon thieves....So every bit of brisk living, and above all when it is healthful, is just so much gained upon the wholesale filcher, death. We shall have the less in our pockets, the more in our stomachs, when he cries stand and deliver. --An Inland Voyage"
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"A birdie with a yellow bill
Hoped upon the window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said:
'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?"
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The rain is falling all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
- Rain"
— Robert Louis Stevenson