Hazlitt quotes

   Though we are mighty fine fellows nowadays, we 822 cannot write like Hazlitt.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'WalkingTours'.

I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to SirThomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  Memories and Portraits, ch.4,'A College Magazine'