Quote #13
Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.
More from Robert Louis Stevenson
- Nothing like a little judicious levity.
- Ice and iron cannot be welded.
- Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
- So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while h…
- Youth is wholly experimental.
- Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to u…
- I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baud…
- Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.