Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be… — 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
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for… — 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
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
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — 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
