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 Stephenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stephenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stephenson Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stephenson The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. Robert Louis Stephenson The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. Robert Louis Stephenson There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us not to talk about the rest of us. Robert Louis Stephenson You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stephenson Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stephenson A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stephenson Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. Robert Louis Stephenson I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. Robert Louis Stephenson If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. Robert Louis Stephenson Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends Robert Louis Stephenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stephenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stephenson Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stephenson So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stephenson Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stephenson The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stephenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stephenson To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. Robert Louis Stephenson 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 Stephenson
