Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.””

“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.””

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.””

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.””

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.””

“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.””

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.””

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.””

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.””

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.””

“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.””