Robert Louis Stevenson ( 9 of 59 )
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes read more
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing read more
A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at
last entirely right.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of
mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily read more
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of
mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when
it made a cathedral.
Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And read more
Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And I kept my credit on.
