816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

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.

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

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.