All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
Robert Louis StevensonBright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.
Robert Louis StevensonThere can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.
Robert Louis StevensonI consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
Robert Louis StevensonWe live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis StevensonI have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
Robert Louis Stevenson