THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 



which clung to him so persistently that even in his 

 journeys he could not be idle. He composed his cele- 

 brated "Praise of Folly " in a journey from Italy to 

 England, pursuing his theme as he rode and committing 

 his thoughts to writing each night. 



Adrian Turnebus, the illustrious French critic, was so 

 industrious that "it was remarked of him, as it was also 

 of Budaeus, that he spent some hours in study even on 

 the day he .was married." Grotius, thrown into 

 prison, only redoubled his efforts, and when he would un- 

 bend simply turned from one work to another. For 

 recreation he translated the Phenissce of Euripides, 

 turned his own famous Institutions of the Laws o] Hol- 

 land into Dutch, composed " Instructions " for his 

 daughter in the form of a catechism, and the like. 



When Philip of Macedon sneeringly asked Dionysius, 

 Tyrant of Syracuse, how his father found time to com- 

 pose his odes and tragedies, the reply was: "He com- 

 posed them in those hours which you and I consume in 

 drinking and play." That other Sicilian, Diodorus, 

 spent thirty years in Rome collecting materials for his 

 history, besides travelling through the greater part of the 

 provinces of the known world. Yet that was when, 

 as it now seems, the world was young; certainly the 

 materials for history that were then extant were scanty 

 indeed compared with those of the present day. 



A chronicler of a later day, Gilbert Burnet, author of 

 the celebrated History of His Own Time, was obliged 

 by his father to arise at four every morning to begin his 

 studies during his youth ; and the habit thus thrust upon 

 him became second nature, and was retained through- 



