Robert Louis Stevenson: Man

Robert Louis Stevenson was Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Robert Louis Stevenson: 236 quotes10 likes

“This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters.

“It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn gray, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something worthier than their lives.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)

“But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)