The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. 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 treasureglorysea Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. Robert Louis Stevenson distanceloverelationship You can kill the body, but not the spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson spiritualitybodyspirit 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 humilitymentwo 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 readingnamesbook 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 habituniquespirit If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! Robert Louis Stevenson alcoholdrinkingdirty In winter I get up at night Robert Louis Stevenson summerwinterspring 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 memorabletravelmoving 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 armyforestschildren A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson bottleswineshining I who all the Winter through, Robert Louis Stevenson winterlifehands The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson humorbeing-happyhappiness 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 mountainhikingchurch It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. Robert Louis Stevenson pleasanttoesyoung 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 devilbottlesmen 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 salttogetherlooks Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly. Robert Louis Stevenson cheesenightlong It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson natureeyebeauty 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 fatherdeathlying
