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 STEVENSONIt is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Everyone lives by selling something.
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Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Nothing like a little judicious levity.
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An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
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