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
life reality banquets
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
death baby buddhist
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
happiness hope gratitude
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
fun thinking digestion
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
acceptance people world
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
love life success
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
political politics parliament
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
happiness simple mind
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
friendship holiday real-friends
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
luck aversion indifference
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
girl men boys
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
dog animal thinking
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
views years use
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
sorry games play
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!