D.E. Stevenson Quotes

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

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.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

The essence of love is kindness.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

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.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

And all our troubles, all our immense difficulties, now and in the future, can I say, be solved if we have the will, the courage, the boldness to face them, face them square.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

I say this thing about how I've never had to say my head is bloodied but not bowed, like everybody who came before me had to say. And that tells me that I can do a lot more than I think I can.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

There is but one art, to omit.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

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.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can