Robert Louis Stevenson Littles Quotations

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

But of works of art little can be said.