Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Life

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

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

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

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.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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

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.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

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

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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.