Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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

The best things in life are nearest.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

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

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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