Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

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Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

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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.

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Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

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Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

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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.

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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.

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

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I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

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Youth is wholly experimental.

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Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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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.

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Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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