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Away down the river,A hundred miles or more,Other little childrenShall bring my boats ashore. By Robert Louis Stevenson

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. By Robert Louis Stevenson

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

For marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Love- what is love?A great and aching heart;Wrung hands;and silence;and a long despair By Robert Louis Stevenson

I have lost confidence in myself. By Robert Louis Stevenson

man is not truly one, but two By Robert Louis Stevenson

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. By Robert Louis Stevenson

One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. By Robert Louis Stevenson

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum By Robert Louis Stevenson

Cruel children, crying babies,All grow up as geese and gabies,Hated, as their age increases,By their nephews and their nieces. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,Steel-true and blade-straight,The great artificer made my mate. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. By Robert Louis Stevenson

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain. By Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live to make others. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man has a sane spot somewhere. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Rogerthe black flag of piracyflying from her peak. By Robert Louis Stevenson

You may lay to that. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward - Long John Silver By Robert Louis Stevenson

I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, By Robert Louis Stevenson

subjective disturbance By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister; By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest By Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; By Robert Louis Stevenson

I hate to write, but I love to have written. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson

You must suffer me to go my own dark way. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter? By Robert Louis Stevenson

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement? By Robert Louis Stevenson

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Take care of each other. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. By Robert Louis Stevenson

His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer By Robert Louis Stevenson

Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! By Robert Louis Stevenson

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. By Robert Louis Stevenson

about as emotional as a bagpipe. By Robert Louis Stevenson

As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter ... By Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." "A By Robert Louis Stevenson

The spirit of delight comes in small ways. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. By Robert Louis Stevenson

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The essence of love is kindness. By Robert Louis Stevenson

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right. By Robert Louis Stevenson

the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of By Robert Louis Stevenson

If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong By Robert Louis Stevenson

Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

but you're as smart as paint. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit. By Robert Louis Stevenson

ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found By Robert Louis Stevenson

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. By Robert Louis Stevenson

All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; By Robert Louis Stevenson

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. By Robert Louis Stevenson

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ... By Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting, By Robert Louis Stevenson

Whenever the moon and stars are set,Whenever the wind is high,All night long in the dark and wet,A man goes riding by. By Robert Louis Stevenson

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,There I'll establish a city for me. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. By Robert Louis Stevenson

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! By Robert Louis Stevenson

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish you to judge for me entirely,' was the reply. 'I have lost confidence in myself. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand? By Robert Louis Stevenson

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? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Children are certainly too good to be true. By Robert Louis Stevenson

That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. By Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Let first the onion flourish there,Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,Wine-scented and poetic soulOf the capacious salad bowl. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Doctors is all swabs. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes By Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. By Robert Louis Stevenson

...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comesas you call itof being arrant asses," retorted the doctor. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I smoke a pipe abroad, becauseTo all cigars I much prefer it,And as I scorn you social laws,My choice has nothing to deter it. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass I was conscious of no repugnance,rather a leap of welcome. This too, was myself. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. By Robert Louis Stevenson

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory. By Robert Louis Stevenson

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Saints are sinners who kept on going. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine? By Robert Louis Stevenson

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. By Robert Louis Stevenson

One morning, very early, when the sun was up,I rose and found the shiny dew on every buttercup By Robert Louis Stevenson

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call! By Robert Louis Stevenson

But a word once spoken who can recapture it? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife By Robert Louis Stevenson

The child that is not clean and neat,With lots of toys and things to eat,He is a naughty child, I'm sureOr else his dear Papa is poor. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheesetoasted mostly. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. By Robert Louis Stevenson

After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars. By Robert Louis Stevenson

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Some day ... after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. By Robert Louis Stevenson

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain By Robert Louis Stevenson

seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins By Robert Louis Stevenson

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth. By Robert Louis Stevenson

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! By Robert Louis Stevenson

Well!' I said. 'And suppose I had come round after?''I like you more better now,' said she. By Robert Louis Stevenson

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And still the figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face ... By Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Must we to bed indeed? Well then,Let us arise and go like men,And face with an undaunted treadThe long black passage up to bed. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear. By Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night,and dress by yellow candlelight,In summer, quite the other day,I have to go to bed by day By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We must go on, because we can't turn back. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The physician ... is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril? By Robert Louis Stevenson

The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson By Robert Louis Stevenson

And what is the sea?" asked Will. "The sea!" cried the miller. "Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made! By Robert Louis Stevenson

we cleared out of the river, and he had the By Robert Louis Stevenson

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

AWAY with funeral music - setThe pipe to powerful lips -The cup of life's for him that drinksAnd not for him that sips. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We can only know others by ourselves. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing like a little judicious levity. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I'll be as silent as the grave. By Robert Louis Stevenson

he belonged to that class of men who think a weak head the ornament of women - an opinion invariably punished in this life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned. By Robert Louis Stevenson

No baggage - there was the secret of existence. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe in an ultimate decency of things. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Them that die'll be the lucky ones. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A good conscience is eight parts of courage. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Scotland has no unity except on the map By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I was the giant great and stillThat sits upon the pillow-hill,And sees before him, dale and plain,The pleasant land of counterpane. By Robert Louis Stevenson

But of works of art little can be said. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. By Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And yet Alan had behaved like a child, and (what is worse) a treacherous child. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Time which none can bind,While flowing fast away, leaves love behind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The true success is to labour. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy By Robert Louis Stevenson

All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do - All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off. By Robert Louis Stevenson

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The woman who can manage, like the man who can fight, must never shrink from an encounter. The knight must not disgrace his weapons. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. By Robert Louis Stevenson

This simple accident of falling in love is as beneficial as it is astonishing. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment. By Robert Louis Stevenson

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is wholly experimental. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Captain," said I, By Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. By Robert Louis Stevenson

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. By Robert Louis Stevenson

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. By Robert Louis Stevenson

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. By Robert Louis Stevenson

... Bear up until you see you're gaining. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! By Robert Louis Stevenson

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind ... By Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I was once more face to face with the big bonfire that occupies the kernel of our system. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Both sides of me were in dead earnest. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If you would grow great and stately,You must try to walk sedately. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be honest ... here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The obscurest epoch is today. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Take a cutlass, him that dares, and I'll see the colour of his inside, crutch and all, before that pipe's empty. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he By Robert Louis Stevenson

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Where is he wounded? By Robert Louis Stevenson

He recollected his courage. By Robert Louis Stevenson

looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant By Robert Louis Stevenson

We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its own shade. By Robert Louis Stevenson

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Ua maomao ka lani, ua kahaea luna, Ua pipi ka maka o ka hoku. (The heavens were fair, they stretched above, Many were the eyes of the stars.) By Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He was a very silent man by custom. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Oliver - that knows more of law than honesty - I By Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. By Robert Louis Stevenson

With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Ice and iron cannot be welded. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome. By Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sit loosely in the saddle. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If this is death, it is easier than life. By Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate? By Robert Louis Stevenson

It takes hard writing to make easy reading. By Robert Louis Stevenson

But what is the black spot, captain? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Dirk without the scabbard. This, then, I concealed By Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To miss the joy is to miss everything. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Alan," I cried, "I can stand no more of this." "Ye'll have to sit it then, Davie, By Robert Louis Stevenson

Able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It's a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody more welcome than yourself, By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I want to know, Barbecue: how long are By Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead men don't bite By Robert Louis Stevenson

What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart! By Robert Louis Stevenson

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden By Robert Louis Stevenson

...I'll stake my wig there's fever here. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends? By Robert Louis Stevenson

Ethics are my veiled mistress; I love them, but know not what they are. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't ever confuse motion with progress. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode. By Robert Louis Stevenson

You can kill the body but not the spirit. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. By Robert Louis Stevenson

God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? By 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. By Robert Louis Stevenson

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. By Robert Louis Stevenson

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; By Robert Louis Stevenson

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. By Robert Louis Stevenson

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered. By Robert Louis Stevenson

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. By Robert Louis Stevenson

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. By Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian. By Robert Louis Stevenson

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

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. By Robert Louis Stevenson

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. By Robert Louis Stevenson

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The more things are wrong the more we must act as if all were right. By Robert Louis Stevenson

He had hobbled down there that morning, By Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. By Robert Louis Stevenson

They were kind when it occurred to them, By Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth now flees on feathered foot. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I was still cursed with my duality of purpose. By Robert Louis Stevenson

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. By Robert Louis Stevenson

The world has no room for cowards. By Robert Louis Stevenson

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum By Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. By Robert Louis Stevenson

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; By Robert Louis Stevenson

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. By Robert Louis Stevenson

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. By Robert Louis Stevenson

-I am not sure whether he's sane.-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is. By Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. By Robert Louis Stevenson