Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis 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...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes about
gratitude funeral passing-away
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
happiness morning eye
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.
growing-up expression brain
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
independent men hazards
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
sadness unhappy misery
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
quality vices life-is
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
strong mistake errors
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
stupidity shapes jars
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.
optimism effort battle
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.
summer song nature
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
fun men thinking
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
law limits statutes
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
religious believe firsts
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.