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
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.
believe writing mind
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
religious believe firsts
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
believe men wicked
I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
believe peaceful cry
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
running believe night
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
believe opposites
Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.
believe people maps
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.
believe ultimate decency
I believe in an ultimate decency of things.
harvest seeds reap
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
inspirational life friendship
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
scottish-writer
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.