Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”
The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
My Shadow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).
Pt. I, My Body Which My Dungeon Is.
Underwoods (1887)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”
To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.