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
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man… — 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
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and… — 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
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews… — 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
![“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those…” quote by Robert Louis Stevenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13d/robert-louis-stevenson-289_builder_t-he-kingdom-of-heaven-is-of-the-childli_2766399.jpg)
