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
courage virtue
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
love teacher wife
Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.
men relaxation mind
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.
song flower heart
When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.
gratitude funeral passing-away
We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.
men ideas funeral
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
life men tasks
To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.
one-day today nightfall
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
money mean heart
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.
dog men world
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.
life success ambition
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.
eye yellow shining
A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
long devil roaring
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring
art disappointment sightseeing
Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.