When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavor springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“But the truth of his teaching would seem to be this: in our own person and fortune, we should be ready to… — 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… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — 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 spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
