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
believe writing mind
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
flower book wine
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!
baby children too-good-to-be-true
Children are certainly too good to be true.
funny-love police matrimony
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
age youth illusion
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
spring flower character
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
men imagination secret
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.
people giving may
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
strong mistake errors
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
independent men hazards
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
sadness unhappy misery
Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.
hate sadness people
Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.