For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
Robert Louis StevensonA horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
Robert Louis StevensonThe correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Robert Louis StevensonAnyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson