The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

5 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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.— filed under Childhood
Garden of Verses. Bed in Summer. While here at home, in shining day, We round the sunny garden play, Each little Indian sleepy-head Is being kissed and put to bed.— filed under Childhood
Old Bachelor. Last line. It's an owercome sooth fo' age an' youth, And it brooks wi' nae denial, That the dearest friends are the auldest friends, And the young are just on trial.— filed under Friends
C. Ch. II. The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the Hills and Far Away.— filed under Music
It is the season now to go About the country high and low, Among the lilacs hand in hand, And two by two in fairyland. C.— filed under Sculpture
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