Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

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Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

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A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

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With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

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The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

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But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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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.

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

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It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

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I hate to write, but I love to have written.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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