To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis StevensonEach has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
Robert Louis StevensonThis grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
Robert Louis Stevenson