Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A friend is a present you give yourself.

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

Youth is wholly experimental.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

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?

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much:—surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks.

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

"What is the Black Spot, Captain?"… "That's a summons, mate."

Our mission in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in the best of spirits.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.

Them that die'll be the lucky ones.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delightOf birdsong at morning and starshine at night.