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
fighter classic
Am I no a bonny fighter?
entrepreneur cures parts-of-life
A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.
beautiful perspective sides
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
prayer men doors
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
happiness world domination
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
heart white apples
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
children age balance
To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.
inspirational joy forever
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
happiness done good-work
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
names wings nurse
The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all
halloween eye men
O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."
marriage people married
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
elements jekyll beloved
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
long may
The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.