Robert Louis Stevenson

(440 votes)   Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(338 votes)   A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(315 votes)   You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

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(296 votes)   Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(284 votes)   Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(283 votes)   I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(257 votes)   There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(238 votes)   We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(231 votes)   Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(222 votes)   It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(219 votes)   Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(215 votes)   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 Balfour Stevenson

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(196 votes)   A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(186 votes)   If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(184 votes)   Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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