All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMan is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou 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 STEVENSONEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOld and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIf a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON