Quotes from 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
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
— Robert Louis Stevenson
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
— Robert Louis Stevenson