"While others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before the week be out, your truant may learn some really useful art: to play the fiddle, to know a good cigar, or to speak with ease and opportunity to all varieties of men."
"Perpetual devotion to what man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
Robert Louis Stevenson
First published in the Cornhill Magazine, July 1877. Included in Virginibus Puerisque, 1881.
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