Quotes from Across the Plains — Robert Louis Stevenson
1850–1894 Scotland
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
Across the Plains (1892)
The observer (poor soul, with his documents!) is all abroad. For to look at the man is but to court deception.
Across the Plains (1892)
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
Across the Plains (1892)
Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.
Across the Plains (1892)
To make our idea of morality centre on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
Across the Plains (1892)
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.
Across the Plains (1892)