816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.

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.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

A child should always say what’s true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.