All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMarriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
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When 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.
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I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
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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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When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
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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.
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The obscurest epoch is today.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
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The 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.
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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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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
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Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
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