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
men vocabulary-words bread
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
men proud be-proud
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
men careers lasts
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
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.
independent men hazards
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
fun men thinking
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
gratitude past men
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.