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
credit thrice
Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.
men ease forget
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.
men coward panic
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
youth
Youth is wholly experimental.
running men race
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
true-success labour
The true success is to labour.
age tilt stones
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
home tongue teeth
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
men wife people
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
desire income wealth
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
death life-death easier
If this is death, it is easier than life.
desire world forests
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
summer ideas long
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
suicide devil care
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest