To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
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 STEVENSON -
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
An elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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 -
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON