Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there.

All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

about as emotional as a bagpipe.

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.

"What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate."

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I have lost confidence in myself.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.