Have you no sense to devise a system which will make you independent of all efforts, and all wills, but your own?
Take one day; share it into sections; to each section apportion its task: leave no stray unemployed quarters of an hour, ten minutes, five minutes--include all; do each piece of business in its turn with method, with rigid regularity.

The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun; and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment: you have had to seek no one's company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance; you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.

Take this advice: the first and last I shall offer you; then you will not want me or any one else, happen what may.

Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be.

I tell you this plainly; and listen: for though I shall no more repeat what I am now about to say, I shall steadily act on it.