“Time which none can bind, While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — 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
“His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Everyone, at some time or another, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Time to Rise A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon my window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some… — 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
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“From that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies… — 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 do not suppose that, when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice, he is once out of five hundred times… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Several times we shipped a little water, and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It is nothing to get wet; but the misery of these individual pricks of cold all over my body at the same… — 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
“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
