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“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Reading

“If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

People , Dependency

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Familiar Studies of Men and Books http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fsomb10.txt (1882).

Life

“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

God

“The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?”

Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses

Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

Star , Night

“To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

314.
Aes Triplex (1878)

“Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

Love , Hope , Wealth

“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Weir of Hermiston http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/weirh10.txt (1896).

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Happiness

“It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subjects is to do them well; therefore, please to remember this is an apology. It is certain that much may be judiciously argued in favour of diligence; only there is something to be said against it, and that is what, on the present occasion, I have to say.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

People , Fools , Personality , Indifference

“Who comes tonight? We ope the doors in vain”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Underwoods

Bk. I, To Henry James.
Underwoods (1887)

“There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Life , Knowledge , Science

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth of Intercourse.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

Literature

“There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Underwoods

Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Underwoods (1887)

“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses

Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

World , Happiness

“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Old Mortality (1884).

Life , Parting , Forgetting , Happiness

“The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses

The Cow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

Love , Heart

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878).