It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.


The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, with Bibliographical Notes by Edmund Grosse (ed. 1906)

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind...

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind...