Their ancient devotion attracts the people every Sunday to the church of St.Ambrosio, near which I dwell.

During the rest of the week, this quarter is a desert.
"Fortune has changed nothing in my nourishment, or my hours of sleep, except that I retrench as much as possible from indulgence in either.

I lie in bed for no other purpose than to sleep, unless I am ill.

I hasten from bed as soon as I am awake, and pass into my library.

This takes place about the middle of the night, save when the nights are shortest.
I grant to Nature nothing but what she imperatively demands, and which it is impossible to refuse her.
"Though I have always loved solitude and silence, I am a great gossip with my friends, which arises, perhaps, from my seeing them but rarely.
I atone for this loquacity by a year of taciturnity.