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
orange culinary
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
truth letters spirit
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
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.
spirit mockery
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.
science men engineering
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
age safe belief
Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.
men enough should
It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
home self lazy
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
dog cat eye
It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.
children trying grows
If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.
stars dark moon
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.
travel horse bridges
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle
rain heart blow
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!
art riches
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.