816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

The essence of love is kindness.

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.