All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Everyone lives by selling something.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The obscurest epoch is today.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

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?
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Quote