Robert Louis Stevenson

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Robert Louis Stevenson