816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

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

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.