3 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Virtue

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes on virtue

11. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.

70. 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 - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.

71. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.