It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.