816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.

Since hate poisons the soul, don’t cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

It’s a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected.

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I’m sure – Or else his dear Papa is poor.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life’s raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Black mail I suppose; an honest man paying through the nose for some of the capers of his youth. Black Mail House is what I call the place with the door, in consequence.

Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.

Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.