Scottish Essayist Quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson

Archibald Alison

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Alexander Smith

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

Archibald Alison

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Science is an ideal of the method of nature, and the production of that ideal is a true creation.

Samuel Morison Brown