816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.