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.
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
I am not fond of bigots myself, because they are not fond of me.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the […]
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
My bed is like a little boat; Nurse helps me in when I embark; She girds me in my sailor’s coat And starts me in the dark. At night I go on board and say Good-night to all my friends on shore; I shut my eyes and sail away And see and hear no more. […]
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
