816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The rain is falling all around, it falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here, and on the ships at sea.

Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; / Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore / Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn / Disturbs the eternal sleep, / But in the stillness far withdrawn / Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

Old is the tree and the fruit good, / Very old and thick the wood. / Woodman, is your courage stout? / Beware! the root is wrapped about / Your mother's heart, your father's bones; / And like the mandrake comes with groans.

I saw you toss the kites on high / And blow the birds about the sky; / And all around I heard you pass, / Like ladies' skirts across the grass-- / O wind, a-blowing all day long, / O wind, that sings so loud a song!

LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart; / Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. / Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare / To see love coming and see love depart.

May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen

To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside.

Love — what is love? A great and aching heart; / Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. / Life — what is life? Upon a moorland bare / To see love coming and see love depart.