Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good:… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is… — 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
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
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console… — 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
