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
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“One generation after another falls like honeybees upon this memorable forest, rifle its sweets, pack themselves with vital memories, and when the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — 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
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.” — 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
