If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Ethics Quotes

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be...

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

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

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

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible...

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.