“To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best, but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy which lies on the con…”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. And it is not by any means certain that a man's business is the most important thing he has to do.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“It is extraordinary, it is extraordinary how hourly and how violently change the feelings of an inexperienced young man.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, Lord Beaconsfield, amazon.comTagged: Life
“Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you. He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.comTagged: Life