You Can Only Acquire Really Useful General

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.

We Shall Never Have More Time. We Have, And Always Had, All The Time There Is. No Object Is Served In Waiting Until Next Week Or Even Until Tomorrow. Keep Going... Concentrate On Something Useful.

It Is Within The Experience Of Everyone That When Pleasure And Pain Reach A Certain Intensity They Are Indistinguishable.

Great Wealth May Be To Its Owner A Blessing Or A Curse. Alas! I Fear It Is Too Often The Latter. It Hardens The Heart, Blunts The Finer Susceptibilities, And Transforms Into A Fiend What Under More Favourable Circumstances Might Have Been A Human Being.

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.