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
boys weather world
When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
men long care
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
land traveller foreign-lands
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.
character why-not weakness
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
goes-on thunderstorm strive
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
work progress
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
matter cards life-is
Life is not a matter of holding good cards
flower civilization physicians
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
night men waiting
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
children naughty toys
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
night sky tea
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
children thinking swings
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!
children rivers littles
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.
views speak minutes
Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes