816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.