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
children army forests
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
forget forgetfulness oneself
To forget oneself is to be happy.
love relationship distance
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
unique spirit habit
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
life business marketing
Everyone lives by selling something.
love inspirational life
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
strong identity idle
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
indigestion reap
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
happiness being-happy humor
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
life retrospect action
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
funny life sweet
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
men vanity cases
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
beauty nature eye
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
inspirational motivational running
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?