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

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Ethics Quotes

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

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

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has...

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

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

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however...

To forget oneself is to be happy.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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

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

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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.

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.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor

Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather...

Make books your companions; let your bookshelves be your gardens; bask in their beauty, gather...

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches...

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches...