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
today plant harvest
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
beautiful travel adventure
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
wisdom people ambitious
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
spiritual memories animal
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
life thankful gratitude
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
voice important worst
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
happiness want ends
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
inspirational-love love-is garden
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
courage names everyday
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
success starting-over achievement
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
travel inspirational-life moving
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
credit ever-after advantage
Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.
writing misunderstood understood
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
love funny women
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.