More from Robert Louis Stevenson

  1. In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
  2. I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baud…
  3. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
  4. Youth is wholly experimental.
  5. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
  6. Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is - nor yet so good a Christian.
  7. In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be…
  8. Nothing like a little judicious levity.

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