Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For I think we may look upon our little private war with death somewhat in this light. If a man knows he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“As a monarch who should care more for the outlying colonies he knows on the map or through the report of his… — 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
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not… — 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
