Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
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Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)
“The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
“But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.”
Source: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories
Source: The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
“To miss the joy is to miss everything.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
Source: Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”
“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Source: The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Source: My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Source: Dreams of Elsewhere
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“To forget oneself is to be happy.”
Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.”
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona