You Can Turn Over A New Leaf

I Will Never Cease Advising My Friends And Enemies To Read Poetry Before Anything.

You Can Only Acquire Really Useful General Ideas By First Acquiring Particular Ideas . . . You Cannot Make Bricks Without Straw.

Which Of Us Is Not Saying To Himself Which Of Us Has Not Been Saying To Himself All His Life: " I Shall Alter That When I Have A Little More Time"? We Never Shall Have Any More Time. We Have, And We Have Always Had, All The Time There Is.

Does There, I Wonder, Exist A Being Who Has Read All, Or Approximately All, That The Person Of Average Culture Is Supposed To Have Read, And That Not To Have Read Is A Social Sin? If Such A Being Does Exist, Surely He Is An Old, A Very Old Man.

To My Mind The Most Poignant Mystical Exhoration Ever Written Is "be Still And Know That I Am God."