Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes Quotes

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Wine is bottled poetry.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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13 November, 1850
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03 December, 1894
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Scotland
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