Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

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Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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

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To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

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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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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

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The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

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and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said Alan. "For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

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Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

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My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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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."

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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