Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotes

• “Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor...”
• “Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tr...”
• “There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
• “Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
• “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
• “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
• “That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
• “You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
• “To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.”
• “Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
• “Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
• “A friend is a gift you give yourself.”