No Mind, However Loving, Could Bear To

Pessimism, When You Get Used To It, Is Just As Agreeable As Optimism.

Happiness Includes Chiefly The Idea Of Satisfaction After Full Honest Effort. No One Can Possibly Be Satisfied And No One Can Be Happy Who Feels That In Some Paramount Affairs He Failed To Take Up The Challenge Of Life.

The Second Suggestion Is To Think As Well As To Read. I Know People Who Read And Read, And For All The Good It Does Them They Might Just As Well Cut Bread-and-butter. They Take To Reading As Better Men Take To Drink. They Fly Through The Shires Of Literature On A Motor-car, Their Sole Object Being Motion. They Will Tell You How Many Books They Have Read In A Year. Unless You Give At Least 45 Minutes To Careful, Fatiguing Reflection (it Is An Awful Bore At First) Upon What You Are Reading, Your 90 Minutes Of A Night Are Chiefly Wasted.

If Egotism Means A Terrific Interest In One's Self, Egotism Is Absolutely Essential To Efficient Living.

The Moment You're Born You're Done For.