It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear… — 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
“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
