Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A child should always say what’s true, and speak when he is spoken to, and behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life’s choicest blessings.

Robert Louis Stevenson