Then I went home to breakfast and got back in about three-quarters of an hour and spent the forenoon until one diligently reading law.

After dinner, at two o'clock, I read history until four.

I spent the next two hours in walking alone in the woods and roads of Concord and the neighboring towns, went back to the office at seven, read a little geometry and algebra, reviewing the slender mathematics which I had studied in college, and then spent two hours in reading Greek.
I read through Thucydides, Homer and Xenophon's Hellenica and some other Greek books in that year.

Sundays I went to church twice, but shut myself up in a room at home the rest of the day and read a great quantity of English literature, including Milton, Spencer, Chaucer, George Herbert, South's Sermons and other English classics, reading over again Butler's Analogy and Jouffroy.

It has been said that if a man wish to acquire a pure English style he should give his days and nights to Addison.