A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used ins...tead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no bo...ok. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men te...aches the art of omission and selection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He did not see that there is no such thing as a standard for the creative spirit; that no one great book must ever be separately r...egarded, and permitted to domineer with its own uniqueness upon the creative mind; but that all existing great works must be federated in the fancy; and so regarded as a miscellaneous and Pantheistic whole; and then,--without at all dictating to his own mind, or unduly biasing it any way,--thus combined, they would prove simply an exhilarative and provocative to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take a red book called TELEPHONE, size eight by four. There it sits.... My red book, name, address and number. These are all people that I somehow own. Yet some of these names are counterfeit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransac...k; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy" Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is ...reckoned the standard principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull o...ne book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the labor interests, an...d the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »