I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.
Robert Louis StevensonA child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.
Robert Louis StevensonI consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
Robert Louis Stevenson