LINES AND SENTENCES
When people object to routine, which a commercial friend of mine calls the "rational of business"?they are really making themselves unnecessary work if you are striving to achieve a character for perpetual motion, you are bound to waste motion. The man who is bent on making every moment "original" loses the comfort of the contrasting commonplace. Play the game of life very moment by a brand new rule, and it cases to be a great artist. Great artists have always welcomed their limitations. The highest type of genius?like that of the French classic school of dramatists?had had this kinship with the living nature?that it chose to be self-limited. The harder the conditions you impose on yourself in solving a puzzle, the greater the zest of mastering it. There is more fun in winning freedom against the shackles of tyranny than in lazily enjoying a freedom which we have not won. That is why suffering Belgium is more cheerful than America, and that is why we keep the Fourth of July and Washington's birthday. Wallace Herbert Blake. 