- 1st. Live as well as you dare.
- 2nd. Go into the shower-bath with a small quantity of water at a temperature low enough to give you a slight sensation of cold, 75 or 80 degrees.
- 3rd. Amusing books.
- 4th. Short views of human life—not further than dinner or tea.
- 5th. Be as busy as you can.
- 6th. See as much as you can of those friends who respect and like you.
- 7th. And of those acquaintances who amuse you.
- 8th. Make no secret of low spirits to you friends, but talk of them freely—they are always worse for dignified concealment.
- 9th. Attend to the effects tea and coffee produce upon you.
- 10th. Compare your lot with that of other people.
- 11th. Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best.
- 12th. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy, sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion, not ending in active benevolence.
- 13th. Do good, and endeavour to please everybody of every degree.
- 14th Be as much as you can in the open air without fatigue.
- 15th. Make the room where you commonly sit gay and pleasant.
- 16th. Struggle by little and little against idleness.
- 17th. Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice.
- 18th. Keep good blazing fires.
- 19th. Be firm and constant in the exercise of rational religion.
jul 21 2012 ∞
aug 6 2013 +