To go to bed at midnight and rise at daybreak, and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained.
To imagine that if a little work or exercise is good, violent or prolonged exercise is better.
To conclude that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.
To eat as if you had only a minute to finish the meal in, or to eat without an appetite, or continue after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste.
To believe that children can do as much work as grown people, and that the more hours they study the more they learn.
To imagine that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better (as alcoholic stimulants) is good for the system, without regard to its after effects.
To take off proper clothing out of season, simply because you have become heated.
To think that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all the diseases flesh is heir to.