In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go… — 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
With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My tea is nearly ready and thesun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;… — 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
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Bed in Summer In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes… — 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
