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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet best known for *Treasure Island*, *Kidnapped*, and *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*. A masterful storyteller with a gift for vivid prose, Stevenson's adventure tales and psychological fiction have entertained readers for well over a century.

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“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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All Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Best

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel

“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

“You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Time

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage

“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

Great

“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.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature

“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Art

“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.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Great

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

“All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Change

“So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Business

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Age

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Good

“It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Love