Top 102 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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.

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. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.