This very short book is a collection taken from the numerous works of this most famous man of letters. It is fun to skim, put aside, and pick up again. I found myself making note of more than a dozen witticisms I’d not heard before. While such a collection probably has limited appeal, for me it was an entertaining and enlightening read.
"I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road."~pgs. 79-80