Maxioms by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the read more
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
