Greek and Latin, breakfast; business, an evening walk with a book, a drive after sunset, dinner, coffee, my bed,--there you have the history of a day.

My classical studies go on vigorously.
I have read Demosthenes twice,--I need not say with what delight and admiration.

I am now deep in Isocrates and from him I shall pass to Lysias.

I have finished Diodorus Siculus at last, after dawdling over him at odd times ever since last March.

He is a stupid, credulous, prosing old ass; yet I heartily wish that we had a good deal more of him.