More - Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate /a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes /he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Flexibility

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Travel Travel And Tourism

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Best Friends

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Graduation

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Difficulty

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 Balfour Stevenson

 American Politician Money

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 

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

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Gardening And Gardens Maxim

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 American Politician Devil

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

 Friends Or Friendship Scottish Writer