816 Quotes 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.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

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

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.

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

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