Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson

We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above and the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Robert Louis Stevenson