Love Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Sit loosely in the saddle.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We can only know others by ourselves.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The essence of love is kindness.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Time which none can bind, While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Am I no a bonny fighter?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The true success is to labour.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson