Quotes by 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 keep your soul alive.

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

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?

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labour.

There is but one art to omit.

Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

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

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon mens hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.