3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson So long as we love, we serve so 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson 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.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
