It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition… — 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
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design. — 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
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to… — 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
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — 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
