816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye’ll taste this steel throughout your vitals.

To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection.

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the Hills and Far Away.

With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.