In the meantime, labour.

He enjoyed intellectual effort; he gloried in the amassing of mental riches.
"To follow Knowledge like a sinking star Beyond the utmost bound of human thought--" these lines were frequently in his mind, and helped to shape his enthusiasm.

Consciously he subdued a great part of himself, binding his daily life in asceticism.

He would not live in London because he dreaded its temptations.

Gladly he adhered to his father's principles in the matter of food and drink; this helped him to subdue his body, or at least he thought so.