Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
6 quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894), taken from 4 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Virginibus Puerisque and Across the Plains.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly”
A Child’s Garden of Verses
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“The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
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“How do you like to go up in a swing, / Up in the air so blue? / Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing / Ever a child can do!”
Virginibus Puerisque
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“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”
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“Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
Across the Plains
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“To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation.”