No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too… — 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 very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.… — 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
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the… — 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
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — 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
