The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAbsences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
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You can kill the body but not the spirit.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
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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.
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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.
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