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.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.