Robert Louis Stevenson

I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Robert Louis Stevenson