Quotes by : Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to....

It is a phrase that may well perplex a poor modern, girt about on every side by clocks and chimes...For....

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

We may now briefly enumerate the elements of style.  We have, peculiar to the prose writer, the task....

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

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

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

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting....

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