816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

We can only know others by ourselves.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

Wine is bottled poetry.