I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis StevensonSir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
Robert Louis StevensonUnder the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.
Robert Louis StevensonThere is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.
Robert Louis Stevenson