Eat to live, not live to eat.
Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.