Robert Louis Stevenson quote: I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

“There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.”

Ifs Mind Certain Fit Depression Antidote Cemetery Frame Of Mind

Book: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

“The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Problem Speak Education Now And Then Inner Life Semblance

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.”

World Way Littles Facts Millions Experience Convince

Book: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

“Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.”

Looks Form Faith Victory Defeat Honorable Unqualified

Book:Virginibus Puerisque

Source: Virginibus Puerisque

“If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.”

Ifs Knows Want Persons Faults

Book: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

“Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.”

Life Life Is Order Sun Wind Everyday Schedules Everyday Life Mixtures Sun Rise

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.”

Ifs Men Age Deals Youth Genuine Old Age Denied Can Not Lament Intonation

Book:Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson

Source: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson

“There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.”

Clear Ready Gay Ambition Welcome Affable

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”