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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

of so-called firm faith is merely fixed and rocky egotism. Many a man thinks he has principles when he has nothing but what was a slushy Portland cement of igno­rance now hardened into rigid prejudice. The wisest minds I find are the most 110 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS teachable. The wider one's experience, the more thorough his study, the braver his heart, and the stronger his intelligence, the more willing he is to hear what you or any man may have to offer. Stubbornness is usually the instinctive self-defense of conscious weakness. When one can do nothing else to show his strength he imitates the mule, the most despised of animals, sets his feet, lays back his ears, and won't budge. Of all creatures deliver us from the man or woman to whom you cannot tell anything! Spinoza's maxim was that the two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit. LITTLES W HAT people think of you usually de­pends on little things, but what peo­ple think of you is no little thing. Hence, son, incline your ear unto

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