A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. --Robert Louis Stevenson — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. — 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
