In Search Of Ideas I Spent Yesterday

As A Rule People Don't Collect Books; They Let Books Collect Themselves.

To The Artist Is Sometimes Granted A Sudden, Transient Insight Which Serves In This Matter For Experience. A Flash, And Where Previously The Brain Held A Dead Fact, The Soul Grasps A Living Truth! At Moments We Are All Artists.

If You've Ever Really Been Poor You Remain Poor At Heart All Your Life. I've Often Walked When I Could Very Well Afford To Take A Taxi Because I Simply Couldn't Bring Myself To Waste The Shilling It Would Cost.

I Know People Who Read And Read, And For All The Good It Does Them, They Might As Well Cut Bread And Butter. Unless You Give At Least 45 Minutes Of Careful, Fatiguing Reflection Upon What You Are Reading, Your Minutes Are Chiefly Wasted.

The Chances Are That You Have Already Come To Believe That Happiness Is Unattainable. But Men Have Attained It. And They Have Attained It By Realizing That Happiness Does Not Spring From The Procuring Of Physical Or Mental Pleasure, But From The Development Of Reason And The Adjustment Of Conduct To Principles.