my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind. — 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… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . .… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant.… — 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
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore. — 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
