816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.