When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe obscurest epoch is today.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEven if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWe must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON