Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

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.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like read more

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.rn

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.