The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will… — 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
I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — 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 a family… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ — 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
