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
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human. In my eyes it bore a livelier image of the spirit, it seemed… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the… — 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
