For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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 no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
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 -
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON