816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.