“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
1850 – 1894
Scottish novelist and essayist, author of "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde".
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect.”
“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
“A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note.”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.”
“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
