816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.