“And yet Alan had behaved like a child, and (what is worse) a treacherous child.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“That child of hell wasn't human. Nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Years may go by, and the wheel in the river Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day, Wheel and keep roaring… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
