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
travel ocean hands
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. 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.
orange culinary
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
happiness men focus
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
happiness people mystery
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
stones jekyll hills
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...
pirate handsome ships
You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
swings ifs
If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
chiefs ifs sufferers
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
jekyll faces signatures
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
good-day eye men
There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver
unhappy jekyll confession
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.
elements jekyll beloved
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
one-day today nightfall
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
shadow littles use
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.