"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
"Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet days departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load."
"Them that die will be the lucky ones!"
"I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night."
"There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear."
"In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy."
"Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort."