To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.
Robert Louis StevensonThe world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
Robert Louis StevensonWe got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.
Robert Louis StevensonGive us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.
Robert Louis Stevenson