53 Quotes by Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings

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.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate