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...
best honest travelers travels wilderness
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
bread catch creature lives man
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
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.
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.
aspiration estate joy landed possession solid
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate
best friend honest travellers travels wilderness
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
adjust budget created cuts hiring hit home people road stop
We're getting hit with more larcenies and home invasions and we have to get more people on the road to stop it, ... We have to adjust the shortages created by the budget cuts and hiring freeze.
duty underrated
There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
employ existence man mighty small
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ