Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotations

He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.

Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

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