Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Life

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

Live life to the fullest.