The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The world has no room for cowards.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON