35 pieces of practical wisdom from my common place book

Starting in 2011, I kept a common place book, which I put aside a few years ago. It fell off a shelf this week, so I scanned through it and thought a lot of it was worth sharing. Transcribing the whole thing would be a burden on the reader, so instead I’m giving you thirty-five of the entries that have stayed with me the most. Remember: The next book club is on 22nd October, 19.00 UK time. We are reading John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. You can find the schedule here. In the front of the book I copied out these two epigraphs. —“Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of greatness.” Alfred North Whitehead —“You can never be wise unless you love reading.” Samuel Johnson “I am resolved the rise with the sun and to study Scriptures on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings, and to study some Latin author the other three mornings. Noon and nights I shall read English authors… I will rouse up my mind and fix my attentions. I will stand collected within myself a

Starting in 2011, I kept a common place book, which I put aside a few years ago. It fell off a shelf this week, so I scanned through it and thought a lot of it was worth sharing. Transcribing the whole thing would be a burden on the reader, so instead I’m giving you thirty-five of the entries that have stayed with me the most. Remember: The next book club is on 22nd October, 19.00 UK time. We are reading John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography. You can find the schedule here. In the front of the book I copied out these two epigraphs. —“Moral education is impossible apart from the habitual vision of g