Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come read more

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream read more

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might
To eat with apple-tart.