Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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?

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

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

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.