Robert Louis Stevenson

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Robert Louis Stevenson

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson