Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes


It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.


Citations

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, p. 248.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Born: November 13, 1850
  • Died: December 3, 1894
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Travel Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.