"I used to be utterly possessed by them [feelings of impatience]. But I have learnt at last the old stoic secret: hope nothing, fear nothing, desire nothing, forget joy and sorrow; and now impatience hardly ever comes to me."

"Life is too short for sleep, when once the passion of great achievement has laid hold on one." BR hardly ever retires before one.

He advises reading Pollock before Spinoza.