One to Read, One to Write

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage


“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. ”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Sir, with no intention to take offense, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“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