A Sense Of The Value Of Time...

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.

I Don't Read My Reviews, I Measure Them.

The Man Who Begins To Go To Bed Forty Minutes Before He Opens His Bedroom Door Is Bored; That Is To Say, He Is Not Living.

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 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.