All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something." The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!" And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Furthermore, anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson