Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere."

"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

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

"Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind."

"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect."

"To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy"

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us"

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy"

"There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy."

"By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle."

"All human beings are commingled out of good and evil."

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

"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."

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

"Dead men don't bite."

"Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week."

"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."