Robert Louis Stevenson

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

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

Hope looks for unqualified success; but faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate.

Robert Louis Stevenson