Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know”

“Silence is sometimes the severest criticism”

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

“Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

“You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”

“He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.”

“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police”

“You can kill the body but not the spirit.”

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do lifes plain, common work as it comes, certain that”

“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.”

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep.