To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not… — 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
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who… — 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
