A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis StevensonIf your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis StevensonIt is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. Robert Louis StevensonKeep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis StevensonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. Robert Louis StevensonThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson 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? Robert Louis StevensonBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers, 1874 Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it. Robert Louis Stevenson, Beggars, 1903 To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. Robert Louis Stevenson, Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
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