Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim read more

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim
of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point,
indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess
really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other read more

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the read more

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.