816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Youth is wholly experimental.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.