A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
Robert Louis StevensonWell, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis StevensonThe world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.
Robert Louis StevensonI have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
Robert Louis Stevenson