The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.- Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The world has no room for cowards.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
The obscurest epoch is today.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
