Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
joke kant share
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
banquet consequences sooner
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
welcomed
Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed
conceal depend lest lives morals simpler spoil
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say ""give them up,"" for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
bloodless books good mighty substitute
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
bread catch creature lives man
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
brains fool fools-and-foolishness himself man
For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
aspiration estate joy landed possession solid
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate
lamp practice precepts unto
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
putting strongly style
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
difficulty literature mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
disloyal friend hours lies lies-and-lying man opened room sat vile
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
checkered conversation marriage
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
brains fool himself man
Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself