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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Signatures, Jekyll, Faces
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Classic Unabridged Edition): Psychological thriller by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.11, e-artnow

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

Robert Louis Stevenson
Halloween, Eye, Men
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.327, e-artnow

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Proud, Be Proud, Ifs

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness, Forget, Oneself
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4651, e-artnow

There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Art, Fate, Destiny
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4161, e-artnow

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Robert Louis Stevenson
Eye, Intelligent, Ears
Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.38, Cooper Square Press

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Character, Men, Hands

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Believe, Peaceful, Cry
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.183, Delphi Classics

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hyde, Aspiration, Interest
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, El Extraño Caso Del Dr. Jekyll Y Mr. Hyde: English-Spanish Parallel Text Edition”, p.112, Lulu.com

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Years, Essence, Progress

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Morning, Essence, Voice
Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.669, Jazzybee Verlag

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine, Character, Night

As if a man's soul were not too small to begin with, they have dwarfed an narrowed theirs by a life of all work and no play; until here they are at forty, with a listless attention, a mind vacant of all material of amusement, and not one thought to rub against another, while they wait for the train.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Play, Waiting
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4581, e-artnow

If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Chiefs, Sufferers, Ifs
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Fall, Men, Alarms
Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Doe, World
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Virginibus Puerisque, Part I, 1922.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hands, Argument, Cowardice
Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.30

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll, Stones, Hills
Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.10, Bibliolis Books

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Evil, Jekyll, Humans

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer, Song, Nature
Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Schoonmaker (2000). “Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

Robert Louis Stevenson
Rain, Heart, Blow
1894 Songs of Travel (published 1896), no.45,'To S.R. Crockett (in reply to a dedication)', stanza 1.

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Men, Coward, Panic
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4511, Delphi Classics

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Facts, Chill, Trouble
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4580, e-artnow

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Happy Birthday, Communication, Army
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4553, e-artnow

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Hyde, Hide And Seek, Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Classic Unabridged Edition): Psychological thriller by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.10, e-artnow

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