More quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
"Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits."
"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."
"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."