Authors / Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

1850–1894 · Scottish novelist and travel writer

The author of Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde was a sickly man who travelled constantly and died in Samoa.

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1 quotes traced to Robert Louis Stevenson's own work or a reliable witness.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Source: "El Dorado", Virginibus Puerisque (1881)

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1 famous lines credited to Robert Louis Stevenson that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

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

Actually: No source in Stevenson's works has been found; it appears under his name only in modern collections.