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...
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.
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.
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
loved man scottish-writer useless
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
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.
full happy kings man number sure
The world is so full of a number of things man sure should all be as happy as kings
employ existence man mighty small
The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ
appear biting desert expect island man nails sane three
A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island can't expect to appear as sane as you and me.
continued existence gets man mere seventies time
By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
disloyal friend hours lies lies-and-lying man opened room sat vile
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
saints sinners
The saints are the sinners who keep on going