| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56496 |
| QUOTATION: | When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Letter, autumn 1894. Stevenson’s Letters to Charles Baxter (1956).
Stevenson died in December of that year. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Stevenson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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