Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another...