In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONAn aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
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.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
But 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 STEVENSON -
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON