Sydney Smith vs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Sydney Smith
1927 – 2011
Sydney Smith was an English writer and Anglican clergyman, mainly famous for his wit. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review, lecturing at the Royal Institution and his rhyming salad dressing recipe.
"He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again."
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 – 1894
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."
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