SP Recommends

SP has found two new favorite things. Eliot Gregory and Bibliolife:  Mr. Gregory for his witty and astute social observations at the turn of the Twentieth century and Bibliolife for their mantra “Old Books Deserve a New Life.”

Among the interesting insights found in this book, I stumbled upon some wise words that are a great balm in these difficult days. Perhaps aimed at those who rose too fast on the path of success but most applicable to those of us still in the trenches battling the daily demons of survival and harboring dreams of success and security.

“I’m soured by success!”

“So true is this of all human nature that the following recipe might be given for that attainment of perfect happiness: “Begin far down in any walk of life. Rise by your efforts higher each year, and then be careful to die before discovering that there is nothing at the top. The excitement of the struggle – ‘the rapture of the chase’ – are greater joys than achievement.”

Eliot Gregory, The Ways of Men, (1900)