“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.” — 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
“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
“Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — 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 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
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. — 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
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
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ — 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
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — 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
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
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
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
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
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
