He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldnโt specify the point. Heโs an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I canโt describe him. And itโs not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.
Robert Louis StevensonTo have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.
Robert Louis StevensonDo not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
Robert Louis StevensonIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis StevensonIt was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
Robert Louis Stevenson