The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can kill the body but not the spirit.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThere are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONEverybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONQuiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
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 STEVENSONI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world has no room for cowards.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONYou can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONPerpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON