"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."
― Robert Louis Stevenson
Topic(s):
Nature
More From Robert Louis Stevenson
- "You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; 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."
- "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
- "Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
More In Nature
- "Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."― Karl Kraus
- "Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview."― Sheryl Crow
- "Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented."― Daisaku Ikeda