Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

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Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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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.

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men.

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But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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You can kill the body, but not the spirit.

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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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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.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

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The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

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