816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

A trifle more of that man,’he would say,’and I shall explode.

My idea of man’s chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man’s bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good-will with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. And.

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...

But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.

Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.