30.  I beseech you to look again and again at, and to remember every word of, the passage which I have just quoted from the book of ECCLESIASTICUS.  How completely have been, and are, its words verified by my experience and in my person!  How little of eating and drinking is sufficient for me!  How wholesome is my sleep!  How early do I rise; and how ‘well at ease’ am I ‘with myself!’ I should not have deserved such blessings, if I had withheld from my neighbours a knowledge of the means by which they were obtained; and, therefore, this knowledge I have been in the constant habit of communicating.  When one gives a dinner to a company, it is an extraordinary affair, and is intended, by sensible men, for purposes other than those of eating and drinking.  But, in general, in the every-day life, despicable are those who suffer any part of their happiness to depend upon what they have to eat or to drink, provided they have a sufficiency of wholesome food; despicable is the man, and worse than despicable the youth, that would make any sacrifice, however small, whether of money or of time, or of anything else, in order to secure a dinner different from that which he would have had without such sacrifice.  Who, what man, ever performed a greater quantity of labour than I have performed?  What man ever did so much?  Now, in a great measure, I owe my capability to perform this labour to my disregard of dainties.  Being shut up two years in Newgate, with a fine on my head of a thousand pounds to the king, for having expressed my indignation at the flogging of Englishmen under a guard of German bayonets, I ate, during one whole year, one mutton chop every day.  Being once in town, with one son (then a little boy) and a clerk, while my family was in the country, I had during some weeks nothing but legs of mutton; first day, leg of mutton boiled or roasted; second, cold; third, hashed; then, leg of mutton boiled; and so on.  When I have been by myself, or nearly so, I have always proceeded thus:  given directions for having every day the same thing, or alternately as above, and every day exactly at the same hour, so as to prevent the necessity of any talk about the matter.  I am certain that, upon an average, I have not, during my life, spent more than thirty-five minutes a day at table, including all the meals of the day.  I like, and I take care to have, good and clean victuals; but, if wholesome and clean, that is enough.  If I find it, by chance, too coarse for my appetite, I put the food aside, or let somebody do it, and leave the appetite to gather keenness.  But the great security of all is, to eat little, and to drink nothing that intoxicates.  He that eats till he is full is little better than a beast; and he that drinks till he is drunk is quite a beast.