I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it… — 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
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
With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife — 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
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
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
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
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,… — 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
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends? — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. — 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
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship… — 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
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
“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
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