“And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something. "The score!" he burst… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. I might… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen… — 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
