The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
Robert Louis StevensonWhen I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
Robert Louis StevensonTo be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.
Robert Louis Stevenson