In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise;… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — 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
