It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

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.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.