Quotes By Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

“In short, if youth is not quite right in its opinions, there is a strong probability that age is not much more so. Undying hope is co-ruler of the human bosom with infallible credulity. A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.”

“REQUIEMUnder the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie:Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he long’d to be;Home is the sailor, home from the sea,And the hunter home from the hill.”

“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils”.”

“The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that’s not really a secret, is it?”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

“There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”