Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The obscurest epoch is today.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Stevenson, Robert Louis