Maxioms by Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is read more
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that read more
Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, 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 endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
