“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ― William Hazlitt   “The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.” ― William Hazlitt   “He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.” ― William Hazlitt   “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.” ― William Hazlitt   “Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.” [The Sick Chamber…

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ― Robert F. Kennedy     “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of…

Robert Louis Stevenson quotes Showing 1-30 of 960 “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson     “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson     “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson     “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson     “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty…