Top 102 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

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

The obscurest epoch is today.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

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

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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.