816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

The world has no room for cowards.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!