Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — 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
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when… — 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
