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.
"Prendete una giornata, fatene più parti, assegnate un lavoro a ciascuna di queste parti, impiegate ogni quarto d'ora, ogni minuto e giungerete alla fine della giornata senza accorgervene; non dovrete riconoscenza a nessuno per avervi aiutata a passare il tempo, non avrete chiesto a nessuno compagnia, conversazione o simpatia, e avrete vissuto come deve vivere ogni essere indipendente.