I'm reading a chapter in The Imperial Highway, and this chapters' on reading, and these quotes are encouraging us to vary our diet.
"It is still further true that change and variety in study are sometimes quite as beneficial as steady devotion to any single branch of intellectual effort.
It's not necessary to be always pounding away on one corner of an anvil, in order to be busy.
A mind that does a great deal of thinking needs to spend some time gathering the raw material for thought; it must ruminate and browse among books, and more than this, it must be turned over occasionally like summer fallow, and allowed to lie exposed to the various fertilizing influences which, like winds, sweep over it from the great worlds of nature and action lying outside."
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