I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
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 Stevenson