“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an… — 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… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — 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
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way. I have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind… — 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
But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon… — 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
“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of… — 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
