Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. Robert Louis Stevenson importance understood judging But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection. Robert Louis Stevenson marriage police friendship The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. Robert Louis Stevenson saint trying positive Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson bed-of-roses battle flower The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life. Robert Louis Stevenson stars flower life I've a grand memory for forgetting. Robert Louis Stevenson forget memories 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. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. Robert Louis Stevenson wrath brave giving The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. Robert Louis Stevenson noble can-do men In the other gardens Robert Louis Stevenson flower summer song I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now? Robert Louis Stevenson real men art He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. Robert Louis Stevenson indigestion reap No man is useless while he has a friend. Robert Louis Stevenson real-friends cheer friendship A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion. Robert Louis Stevenson wells emotion understanding We can only know others by ourselves. Robert Louis Stevenson knows happiness life Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. Robert Louis Stevenson cruise lasts inspirational Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different. Robert Louis Stevenson preparation different somewhere-else 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 work success love I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure. Robert Louis Stevenson awful forever men How do you like to go up in a swing, Robert Louis Stevenson wall summer children There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. Robert Louis Stevenson may people ideas
