Robert Louis Stevenson

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If this is death, it is easier than life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Robert Louis Stevenson