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 Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson