Famous quotes containing the words louis stevenson, louis, stevenson and/or state:
“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.”
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)
“A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)