There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Touchstone," Fables
Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Treasure Island
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
All human beings ... are commingled out of good and evil.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
- The sticks break, the stones crumble,
- The eternal altars tilt and tumble,
- Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist
- About the amazed evangelist.
- He stands unshook from age to youth
- Upon one pin-point of the truth.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "Something In It," Fables
- Old is the tree and the fruit good,
- Very old and thick the wood.
- Woodman, is your courage stout?
- Beware! the root is wrapped about
- Your mother's heart, your father's bones;
- And like the mandrake comes with groans.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The House of Eld," Fables
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