Maxioms by 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.
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said read more
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is read more
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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.