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Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
page 135 of 366 (36%)
in every corner. ----

This is tiresome? All right, then we'll stop. But whether we
tire or interest you, remember:

As a man thinks, so he grows. Think, study, use all the hours
that separate your croupy cradle from your gloomy grave. Those
hours are few.



CULTIVATE THOUGHT--TEACH YOUR BRAIN TO WORK EARLY

Two centuries back a young man of twenty-three sat in the quiet
of the evening--THINKING.

His body was quiet; his vitality, his life, all his powers, were
centred in his brain.

Above, the moon shone, and around him rustled the branches of the
trees in his father's orchard.

From one of the trees an apple fell.

No need to tell you that the young man was Newton; that the fall
of the apple started in his READY brain the thought that led
to his great discovery, giving him fame to last until this earth
shall crumble.

How splendid the achievement born that moment! How fortunate for
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