I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My tea is nearly ready and thesun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;… — 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
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“One morning, very early, when the sun was up,I rose and found the shiny dew on every buttercup” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live… — 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
