I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — 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
As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally… — 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
