This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man… — 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
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold,… — 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
“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
