A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. Robert Louis Stevenson treasure glory sea Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson distance love relationship You can kill the body, but not the spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson spirituality body spirit There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. Robert Louis Stevenson humility men two In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves. Robert Louis Stevenson reading names book 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 habit unique spirit If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! Robert Louis Stevenson alcohol drinking dirty In winter I get up at night Robert Louis Stevenson summer winter spring For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Robert Louis Stevenson memorable travel moving Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. Robert Louis Stevenson army forests children A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson bottles wine shining I who all the Winter through, Robert Louis Stevenson winter life hands The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson humor being-happy happiness 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 mountain hiking church It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. Robert Louis Stevenson pleasant toes young Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Robert Louis Stevenson devil bottles men We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson salt together looks Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly. Robert Louis Stevenson cheese night long It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson nature eye beauty When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. Robert Louis Stevenson father death lying
