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
death lying father
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
war lying fighting
In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
ideas people may
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
night long cheese
Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.
happiness delight toil
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
dirty drinking alcohol
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
giving grace mind
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
men wife alcohol
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
sympathy memories grateful
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
happiness perspective entrepreneur
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
speech language willing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
positive trying saint
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
dream reality rocks
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
inspirational strength success
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.