One of my goals this year is to read one book at week throughout the year. Last year I missed this goal by about 6 books. As part of my study for each I’ll be putting together a post with some of my favourite snippets from the book.

This book has been sat on my shelf for six months so I decided to kick start the year with clearing that pile of shame. Quite a different read to my usual choice by some good highlights all the same.

If time remains unused, winter becomes a curse. Yet there is work to do, work to be done with the hands. Once this work begins, the clock no longer measures the passage of time.

People often judge the level of a civilisation by the amount of paper it uses. That, however, is simply a matter of volume, not quality. Quality is how the heart and soul of a civilisation should be measured.

The litmus test of a country’s cultural level should be the lives led by ordinary people