Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — 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
