The world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONOur business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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 STEVENSONIt is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBut to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONGive 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 STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON