Robert Louis Stevenson

Take care of each other.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Make up your mind to be happy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He had hobbled down there that morning,”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Ah, it's an ill-conscience that's such an enemy to rest!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea, There I'll establish a city for me.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Come back?  There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." "That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good:…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever." Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." That comed--as…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Her eyes took hold upon mine and clung there, and bound us together like the joining of hands; and the moments we…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone… Freedom is of the essence, because you should be…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something. "The score!" he burst…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, Help us…

— Robert Louis Stevenson