The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“want none of your money," said I, "but what you owe my father. I'll get you one glass, and no more." When… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“My dear," said my mother suddenly, "take the money and run on. I am going to faint." This was certainly the end… — 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