How to Acquire a Good Memory

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1878

How to Acquire a Good Memory.

We read too much and think too little about what we read; the consequence is, the most of the people we meet know something, in a superficial way, about almost everything. Not a tenth part of what is read is remembered for a month after the book or newspaper is laid aside. Daniel Webster, who had a rich store of information on most every subject of general interest, said that it had been his habit for years to reflect for a short time on whatever he read, and so fix the thoughts and ideas worth remembering in his mind. Any one who does this will be surprised to find how retentive his memory will become, or how long after reading an interesting article, the best portion of it will remain with him.—Templar's Magazine.