The countryman has GOT to be by himself much of the time whether
he wishes to or not. If he has anything in him it comes out.
Astronomy, man's grandest study, grew up among the shepherds.
You of the cities never even see the stars, much less study them.
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Don't be a sheep or a deer. Don't devote your hours to the
company and conversation of those who know as little as you do.
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.
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