Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest Auteur: Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Quote More from Robert Louis Stevenson “I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away.” “Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer” “He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger …” “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”