Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.

The essence of love is kindness.

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

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

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.