How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

ano. Having acquired power over that most unruly member of one's complex organism, one has naturally to put it to the yoke. Useless to pos

e's self. Man, know thyself. These words are so hackneyed that verily I blush to write them. Yet they must be written, for they need to be written. (I take back my blush, being ashamed of it.) Man, know thyself. I say it out loud. The phrase is one of those phrases with which ever

iness, upon the main direction in which we are going, upon what life is giving to us, upon the share which rea

of happiness, are you no

able. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the proc

day to the deliberate consideration of your reason, principles, and conduct, you admit also that while striving fo

I blush,

ich conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be made to accord with principles by means of daily examination, reflection, and resolution. What leads to the permanent sorrowfulness of burglars is

s reasonable we shall be. The next time you get cross with the waiter because your steak is over-cooked, ask reason to step into the cabinet-room of your mind, and consult her. She will probably tell you that the waiter did not cook the steak, and had no control

more your steak is over-cooked you will treat the waiter as a fellow-creature, remain quite calm

rtain even more widely known works will occur at once to the memory. I may also mention Pascal, La Bruyere, and Emerson. For myself, you do not catch me travelling without my Marcus Aurelius. Yes, books are valuable. But not

the exertion of having earned the day's living. Of course if, instead of attending to an elementary and profoundly important duty, you prefer to read the paper (which