The Test Of A First-rate

The People Who Live In The Past Must Yield To The People Who Live In The Future. Otherwise The World Would Begin To Turn The Other Way Round.

If Egotism Means A Terrific Interest In One's Self, Egotism Is Absolutely Essential To Efficient Living.

Time Is The Explicable Raw Material Of Everything.

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.

Beware Of Undertaking Too Much At The Start. Be Content With Quite A Little. Allow For Accidents. Allow For Human Nature, Especially Your Own.