Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson More Quotes From Robert Louis Stevenson I hate to write, but I love to have written. Robert Louis Stevenson i-hatehatewriting Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning. Robert Louis Stevenson voiceessencemorning A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man. Robert Louis Stevenson next-daylittlesmen The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean. Robert Louis Stevenson literaturewritingmean But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life. Robert Louis Stevenson caremenlong When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that. Robert Louis Stevenson weatherboysworld And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. Robert Louis Stevenson anecdoteslittlesmen It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! Robert Louis Stevenson givingmenpeople There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well. Robert Louis Stevenson fatedestinyart Make up your mind to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson make-up-your-mindmind There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson foreign-landstravellerland Going for character: why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson why-notweaknesscharacter We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson thunderstormstrivegoes-on I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered. Robert Louis Stevenson not-afraidifs my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Robert Louis Stevenson lazyselfhome The greatest engineering is the engineering of men. Robert Louis Stevenson engineeringmenscience Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them. Robert Louis Stevenson right-manringsmen A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it. Robert Louis Stevenson doefactsart We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision. Robert Louis Stevenson brotheradventurebook And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food. Robert Louis Stevenson orangecookingfood
