You want knowledge, and with this you ought previously to endow yourself.....
Means, for this end, are within your reach.

Why should you waste your time in idleness, and torment yourself with unprofitable wishes?
Books are at hand....

books from which most sciences and languages can be learned.

Read, analise, digest; collect facts, and investigate theories: ascertain the dictates of reason, and supply yourself with the inclination and the power to adhere to them.

You will not, legally speaking, be a man in less than three years.