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
design world different
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
forever watches remember
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
civilization modern umbrella
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
ice iron
Ice and iron cannot be welded.
simple interesting humanity
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
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