“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference. — 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
“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
“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last 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
