When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson