Maxioms by Robert Louis Stevenson
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but read more
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.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come read more
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing read more
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at
last entirely right.
