Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

The world has no room for cowards.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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

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

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

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

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.

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

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.