By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of… — 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
![“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and…” quote by Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/13d/robert-louis-stevenson-289_builder_t-he-kingdom-of-heaven-is-of-the-childli_2766399.jpg)
