816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

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

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