Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. – Robert Louis Stevenson
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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. – Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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. – Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. – Robert Louis Stevenson
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. – Robert Louis Stevenson
