Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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.