Robert Louis Stevenson Poems are given below.Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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