Fortune, Not Wisdom, Rules Lives.

Read At Every Wait; Read At All Hours; Read Within Leisure; Read In Times Of Labor; Read As One Goes In; Read As One Goest Out. The Task Of The Educated Mind Is Simply Put: Read To Lead.

Let Your Desires Be Ruled By Reason.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

Times Are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, And Everyone Is Writing A Book.

A Letter Does Not Blush.