Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

The essence of love is kindness.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

The true success is to labour.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and the true success is to labor.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.