Nuts, apples, and bread seem not a diet wholly suitable, and what to add I know not.

Potatoes are not good; I think they were the cause of my illness last week.

I do not wish to partake of anything that comes even remotely from an animal.

Cooking, also, I wish, as far as possible, to dispense with.

I would I could dispense with the whole digestive apparatus! Cheese, butter, eggs, milk, are for many reasons not a part of my diet." The balance of this fourth volume of his diary, begun September 9, 1844, and ended January 2, 1845, is mainly occupied with addresses to his guardian angel.