Memory is not so much a faculty as it is a function of all the faculties. There is a memory in all the organs of the body. Memory is often restricted, for instance, to memory of words. But an idiot may excel here. There is also a memory for ideas, place, form, time, tune, etc.

Are you familiar with the life story of the late Hubert Howe Bancroft, who died a few years ago at the age of eighty-six? His career alone should satisfy you that achievement after forty is indeed a possibility even in some vocation unattempted before forty.

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it; every sinner must sooner or later come to it, and every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and sets his face resolutely towards the Father's Home, must plant his feet upon its golden rounds.

Without application and perseverance, if we rise at all, we shall-to use a common expression-" go up like a rocket and come down like a stick."

This plan is unique. It's effective, too. Perhaps every man who reads it can't use it, but one thing is sure: You can't tell how much it may help you out until you do read it. And it's in the users own words.

Everyone responds differently to stressful events. That stress response is part instinct and part to do with how we think. We can train our minds how to best respond to the stressors in our lives. Stress does not need to be all bad. Some stress in our daily lives is good and challenges us to reach even higher heights.

Sometimes setting goals alone is not the only problem that you must face. Sometimes, choosing the right goals to begin with is harder.

"Problems are opportunities in work clothes". Henry J Kaiser, American industrialist

How unobservant and wholly unreliant many pupils are may be seen from the fact that notwithstanding my elaborate handling of the processes of learning prose and poetry by heart, I often receive requests to send some indication of how I would learn a particular chapter or selection by heart!