There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONBooks are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMost of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON