How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

by Arnold Bennett

And such is, indeed, the fact. The wish to accomplish something outside their formal programme is common to all men who in the course of evolution have risen past a certain level.

Herbert Spencer, in my opinion the greatest mind that ever lived, was often forced by it into agreeable little backwaters of inquiry.

I suggest--it is only a suggestion--a little chapter of Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus.

I may also mention Pascal, La Bruyere, and Emerson.

Let me now remark to those who have never read Meredith,

If poetry is what is called "a sealed book" to you, begin by reading Hazlitt's famous essay on the nature of "poetry in general."

Its title is "Aurora Leigh," and its author E.B. Browning.