Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

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.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

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

You cannot run away from a weakness. You must sometimes fight it out or perish and if that be so why not now and where you stand?

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

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

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Take care of each other.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.