Much Ingenuity With A Little

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.

You Wake Up In The Morning, And Lo! Your Purse Is Magically Filled With Twenty-four Hours Of The Unmanufactured Tissue Of The Universe Of Your Life! It Is Yours. It Is The Most Precious Of Possessions. No One Can Take It From You. It Is Unstealable. And No One Receives Either More Or Less Than You Receive.

Because Her Instinct Has Told Her, Or Because She Has Been Reliably Informed, The Faded Virgin Knows That The Supreme Joys Are Not For Her; She Knows By A Process Of The Intellect; But She Can Feel Her Deprivation No More Than The Young Mother Can Feel The Hardship Of The Virgin's Lot.

Mother Is Far Too Clever To Understand Anything She Does Not Like.

A Sense Of The Value Of Time... Is An Essential Preliminary To Efficient Work; It Is The Only Method Of Avoiding Hurry.