Don't think hard only when you are trying to remember a popular
song or to decide on the color of your Winter overcoat or
necktie.

Remember that you are an individual, not a grain of dust or a
blade of grass. Don't be a sheep; be a man. It has taken nature
a hundred million years to produce you. Don't make her sorry she
took the time.

Get out in the park and walk and think. Get up in your hall
bedroom, read, study, write what you think. Talk more to
yourself and less to others. Avoid magazines, avoid excessive
newspaper reading.

There is not a man of average ability but could make a striking
career if he could but WILL to do the best that is in him.

Proofs of growth due to solitude are endless. Milton's greatest
work was done when blindness, old age and the death of the
Puritan government forced him into completest seclusion.
Beethoven did his best work in the solitude of deafness.

Bacon would never have been the great leader of scientific
thought had not his trial and disgrace forced him from the
company of a grand retinue and stupid court to the solitude of
his own brain.

"Multum insola fuit anima mea." (My spirit hath been much alone.)
This he said often, and lucky it was for him. Loneliness of
spirit made him.