There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ForeignLandNoOnlyTraveler
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 AliveAmenHumbleInsteadKnowOughtPreferSoulTell
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AffairAnywhereGreatMoveSakeTravel
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AnotherConquerCuriosotyMortifyOneThing
An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ArtElegantFoundationLiteraturePregnantStyleTexture
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BetterHealthLoeMiserSpendthriftWaste
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ArriveBetterHopefullyThingTravel
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BeforeHeavenLongThingUsWell
By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AnonymousBeingBenefitHappyUponWorld
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BanquetConsequenceDownEveryoneLaterSitSooner
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BeingDutyHappyNoUnderrate
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ChangeChildConditionFictionGrownManyOutward
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON GiveLoveneverWithout
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HavePleasantTenThingToeYoung
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BanquestConsequenceDownEverybodyLateSitSoon
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ImpossibleLikelyManPortraitPosterityRespectSceneSpirit
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ActionAppearGoodInevitableMarkRetrospect
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON CallGodLaborLoveQuestionSuccessTarde
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IdeleIdentityPersonalRequireSenseStrong
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. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DifficultEffectLiteratureMeanPriceReaderWishWrite
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FriendManProudShall
