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
memories forget
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
happiness morning eye
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.
growing-up expression brain
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.
law limits statutes
In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.
prayer believe angel
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
disenchanted hopefully arrivals
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
love marriage kindness
The essence of love is kindness.
famous-inspirational live-life live-life-to-the-fullest
Live life to the fullest.
fate soul unhappy
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
inspirational-life grace circumstances
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
men careers lasts
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
girl sex teaching
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
life-lesson book writing
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.
writing two literature
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.