When I find myself
unable to sleep well, I know that something is wrong. If I find
any part of my system the least weak, and not performing its
duty, I consult a good physician. The ability to sleep well, at
any time and in any place, I find of great advantage. I have so
trained myself that I can lie down for a nap of fifteen or twenty
minutes, and get up refreshed in body and mind.
I have said that I make it a rule to finish up each day's work
before leaving it. There is, perhaps, one exception to this. When
I have an unusually difficult question to decide--one that
appeals strongly to the emotions--I find it a safe rule to sleep
over it for a night, or to wait until I have had an opportunity
to talk it over with my wife and friends.
As to my reading; the most time I get for solid reading is when I
am on the cars. Newspapers are to me a constant source of delight
and recreation. The only trouble is that I read too many of them.
Fiction I care little for. Frequently I have to almost force
myself to read a novel that is on every one's lips. The kind of
reading that I have the greatest fondness for is biography. I
like to be sure that I am reading about a real man or a real
thing. I think I do not go too far when I say that I have read
nearly every book and magazine article that has been written
about Abraham Lincoln.
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