Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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.

When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.