Tag: Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
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.
Robert Louis Stevenson