“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, "El Dorado", Virginibus Puerisque (1881)

About Robert Louis Stevenson

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.”

“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”

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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed.”