We 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 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 STEVENSONWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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 STEVENSONThe difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBy being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONA friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
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 STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON