Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
inspirational life friendship
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
friendship blessing ends
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
friendship cheer real-friends
No man is useless while he has a friend.
friendship marriage police
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
friendship holiday real-friends
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
friendship best-friend travel
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
friendship grace nails
There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
harvest seeds reap
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
scottish-writer
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
almost man useless
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
action appears good mark
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
full sure
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.