You Wake Up In The Morning, And

A Cause May Be Inconvenient, But It's Magnificent. It's Like Champagne Or High Heels, And One Must Be Prepared To Suffer For It.

The Most Important Preliminary To The Task Of Arranging One's Life So That One May Live Fully And Comfortably Within One's Daily Budget Of 24 Hours Is The Calm Realization Of The Extreme Difficulty Of The Task, Of The Sacrifices And The Endless Effort Which It Demands.

Every Scene, Even The Commonest, Is Wonderful, If Only One Can Detach Oneself, Casting Off All Memory Of Use And Custom, And Behold It (as It Were) For The First Time; In Its Right, Authentic Colors; Without Making Comparisons. Cherish And Burnish This Faculty Of Seeing Crudely, Simply, Artlessly, Ignorantly; Of Seeing Like A Baby Or A Lunatic, Who Lives Each Moment By Itself And Tarnishes By The Present No Remembrance Of The Past.

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

The Test Of A First-rate Work, And A Test Of Your Sincerity In Calling It A First-rate Work, Is That You Finish It.