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
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
years giving joy
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
marriage husband selfish
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
serious degrees pleasantries
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
somewhere-else preparation way
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
sea treasure glory
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
happiness knows
We can only know others by ourselves.
inspirational exercise intelligent
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
life children men
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
lawyer compromise
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.