Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,.
Weitere Zitate von Robert Louis Stevenson
Zum Autor"The cruellest lies are often told in silence."
"Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys."
"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."
"The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag of piracy--flying from her peak."
"Old is the tree and the fruit good,Very old and thick the wood.Woodman, is your courage stout?Beware! The root is wrapped aboutYour mother's heart, your father's bones;And like the mandrake comes with groans."