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...
harvest judge seeds
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
saints sinners
The saints are the sinners who keep on going
evil manners opened smoothed woman
An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
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.
bloodless books good mighty substitute
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
welcomed
Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed
delay extra officers
Every day we delay this decision, that's another day we don't have extra officers on the road,
checkered conversation marriage
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
humbly instead ought saying soul tells
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
brains fool himself man
Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself
apart gods labor loves man question success trade
If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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.