53 Quotes by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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.

This school has been here since 1904, and has been using the same teaching methodology that they used in 1904, ... Here in 2005. I said that's just ridiculous. We need a change the paradigm, change the way we teach, break out of our comfort zone, and do something new.

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

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

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

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.