We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AnotherAscendEndlessHappilyLeadLiveScaleSeriesThing
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON GiftHabitLookMuchNatureOfferSpirit
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ChequeredConversationDisputeLongMarriageOne
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON CourageFeraKeepOtherShareYourself
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LeftMarriedNothingOnceSuicide
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AllAshamedKnowOurParliament
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FullHappyKingNumberSoThingWorld
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BetweenComeDifferenceDinnerFastGoodLifeLongOnlySweet
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DisquisitionFollowForgivePeoplePhilosophicalThrough
Quiet 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 STEVENSON ClockDuringFortuneFrightenMindMisfortunePacePrivateQuite
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 STEVENSON ExpectScreamSometimesSurpriseSweepTheoryTorrent
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON FellowshipMorePerfectQuiteRightlySolitudeUnderstood
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Essence ChangeEverythingOutwardProgressSameTenThousand
The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AppyFullKingNumberSureThingWorld
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AllBeingCommingledEvilGoodHumanOut
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON NecessaryPerhapsPoliticsPreparationProfessionThought
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BestFindFriendHornetTravelerWildernessWorld
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AncestorArborealEachProbablySitTopTree
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ActionAppearGoodInevitableMarRetrospect
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON CouldElseJokeOnePeopleReadShareSomeWantYourself
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LingLoveOtherServeSo
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AlmostFriendIndispensableManNoSayShouldUseless
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BookEnoughGoodLifeOwnPoorSubstituteWay
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LogicalOncePatternSensuousWeb
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AwayFightPerishStandTimeWeakness
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON BecomeDegenerationFattyManMarriageMoral BeingSelfishSlackUndergoes
