Olalla Quotes

“Forgive me, if I seem to teach, who am as ignorant as the trees of the mountain, but those who learn much do but skim the face of knowledge; they seize the laws, they conceive the dignity of the design - the horror of the living fact fades from their memory. It is we who sit at home with evil who remember, I think, and are warned and pity.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

“It was a lovely body, but the inmate, the soul, was more than worthy of that lodging.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

“She shone on the pale background of the world with the brilliance of flowers”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

“We are all such as He was - the inheritors of sin; we must all bear and expiate a past which was not ours; there is in all of us - ay, even in me - a sparkle of the divine. Like Him, we must endure for a little while, until morning returns bringing peace.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

“In her eyes that hung upon mine, I could read depth beyond depth of passion and sadness, lights of poetry and hope, blackness of despair, and thoughts that were above the earth. It was a lovely body, but the inmate, the soul was more than worthy of that lodging.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla

“Man has risen; if he has sprung from the brutes, he can descend again to the same level.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla