“Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,” — 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
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — 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 reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share
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
