When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you...

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because...