Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"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."

"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator."

"I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun."

"The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ"

"A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me."

"Every man has a sane spot somewhere"

"Every man is his own doctor of divinity in the last resort"

"Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good."

"I've a grand memory for forgetting."

"The obscurest epoch is to-day."

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

"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

"A friend is a present you give to yourself."

"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly."

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

"Nothing made by brute force lasts."

"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."