48 Inspiring Quotes By Robert Louis Stevenson, The Renowned Scottish Novelist
Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson was renowned Scottish travel writer, novelist, essayist and poet who gained recognition for his novels and short stories. Apart from fiction, he made significant contributions to history, anthropology, and also penned biographies. Owing to his ailing health due to weak lungs, Louis was confined to bed for a long time during his childhood. He took lessons from tutors at home who taught him ‘Arabian nights’, ‘Shakespeare’, and ‘The Old testament’. He was fascinated with books not for what they were, but the roots, stories and morals they contained. Many say that Louis travelled in order to escape his illness and that made him a great travel writer. But the travelling that he did with his grandfather, preaching in distant countries seemed to be his motivation. His characters looked as real as possible, revolving around incidents, places, professions and incidents that would contribute to a great story. ‘Treasure Island’, ‘Kidnapped’, ‘A Child's Garden of Verses’, ‘Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ are some of his iconic works. His writings, thoughts, quotes, essays and books will surely serve as a guiding light in stormy nights. In appreciation for this legendary author, we have compiled some of his best quotations on life, travel, books, solitude, punishment, secret, happiness, self-discovery and joy.
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.
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
