Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world — Robert Louis Stevenson
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. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. — Robert Louis Stevenson
You can read kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. — Robert Louis Stevenson
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; — Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — 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
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; — 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 correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed — Robert Louis Stevenson