“ Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ”
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
~ Arthur Helps
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
