Literature adds to reality it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say...
The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do...
In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.