Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in November 13, 1850 / Died in December 3, 1894 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Every one lives by selling something.
To make our idea of 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.
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond; And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about; But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow a little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go, It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a dive-dive-dive. O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds, And you'll hear the water singing at the prow; For beside the dolly sailor, I'm to voyage and explore, To land upon the island where no dolly was before, And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be;...
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Nature
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Life
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
