Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis StevensonOne more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.
Robert Louis StevensonThere were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Robert Louis StevensonSome people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
Robert Louis Stevenson