Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person’s faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s a chief principle in military affairs to go where ye are least expected.

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