It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning. Robert Louis Stevenson ends writing book The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. Robert Louis Stevenson tilt age stones It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. Robert Louis Stevenson income wealth desire Ice and iron cannot be welded. Robert Louis Stevenson iron ice We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. Robert Louis Stevenson panic coward men You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were. Robert Louis Stevenson pieces night long ...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself. Robert Louis Stevenson half littles people It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; Robert Louis Stevenson autumn passion rain If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves. Robert Louis Stevenson journey men looks Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men. Robert Louis Stevenson mind forests men If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife Robert Louis Stevenson wife men people It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever. Robert Louis Stevenson forever remember watches Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail. Robert Louis Stevenson simple humanity interesting The true success is to labour. Robert Louis Stevenson true-success labour The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. Robert Louis Stevenson ease forget men A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. Robert Louis Stevenson race running men Youth is wholly experimental. Robert Louis Stevenson youth Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. Robert Louis Stevenson thrice credit If this is death, it is easier than life. Robert Louis Stevenson life-death easier death The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. Robert Louis Stevenson palate california earth
