Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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

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

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“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.”

“Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that ever did so for his pleasure. I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”