When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted,… — 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
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we… — 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
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers… — 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
