Robert Louis Stevenson ( 9 of 59 )
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not read more
Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
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.
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the read more
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
