More From Robert Louis Stevenson
- "To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life."
- "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?"
- "It 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."
More In Life
- "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."― Henry James
- "Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."― Joseph Addison
- "Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face."― George Eliot