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 STEVENSONOne 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 STEVENSONThe cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSo long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAll speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONTo forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONSooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONNothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThat man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON