Open a Book

There was nothing to do but wait it out.  My kind has to become accustomed to loneliness.  And when one is alone there is nothing to do but study.  –Isaac Bashevis Singer, In My Father’s…

Today’s One-Liner (#175)

Cultivate the art of omission, of elimination, of simplification: that is the secret of strength. ––A.G. Sertillanges, O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, translated by Mary Ryan, 208