Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Life

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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