“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The world has no room for cowards.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
