the way, pray take great care of your teeth, and keep them extremely clean. I have likewise sent you the Greek roots, lately translated into English from the French of the Port Royal. Inform yourself what the Port Royal is. To conclude with a quibble: I hope you will not only feed upon these Greek roots, but likewise digest them perfectly. Adieu. [Same date.]
Time.—There is nothing which I more wish that
you should know, and which fewer people do know,
than the true use and value of time. It is in everybody's
mouth; but in few people's practice. Every
fool, who slatterns away his whole time in nothings,
utters, however, some trite commonplace sentence,
of which there are millions, to prove, at once, the
value and the fleetness of time. The sundials, likewise,
all over Europe, have some ingenious inscription
to that effect; so that nobody squanders away
their time without hearing and seeing, daily, how
necessary it is to employ it well, and how irrecoverable
it is if lost. But all these admonitions are useless,
where there is not a fund of good sense and
reason to suggest them, rather than receive them.
By the manner in which you now tell me that you
employ your time, I flatter myself that you have that
fund: that is the fund which will make you rich
