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...
marriage
Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
anyone carry goes however life sun till until
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
welcomed
Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed
clock fortune minds misfortune perplexed private quiet
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
calls devotion man neglect perpetual sustained
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
bread catch creature lives man
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
among flourish onion poetic rose salad soul wine
Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among the roots, the maiden-fair Wine scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl.
cynicism deal great hate perhaps unless worse
I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
putting strongly style
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
lives scottish-writer selling useful
I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
employ existence man mighty small
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ
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
accept circle friendly hands man mark modest
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.
action appears good inevitable mark matter
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.