What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (1670)(stmaryvalleybloom.org)

    143. Diversion.--Men are entrusted from infancy with the 
    care of their honour, their property, their friends, and 
    even with the property and the honour of their friends.
     
    They are overwhelmed with business, with the study of 
    languages, and with physical exercise; and they are made 
    to understand that they cannot be happy unless their 
    health, their honour, their fortune and that of their 
    friends be in good condition, and that a single thing 
    wanting will make them unhappy.

    Thus they are given cares and business which make them 
    bustle about from break of day. It is, you will 
    exclaim, a strange way to make them happy!

    What more could be done to make them miserable?
    --Indeed! what could be done? We should only have
    to relieve them from all these cares; for then they
    would see themselves: they would  reflect on what they are,
    whence they came, whither they go, and thus we cannot employ
    and divert them too much.

    And this is why, after having given them so much
    business, we advise them, if they have some time for 
    relaxation, to employ it in amusement, in play,
    and to be always fully occupied.