816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.