816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?