The Number of Unusual Actions

There is nothing better than for a man to confine himself to necessary action, to such and so many only. This will not only procure that cheerfulness, which from the goodness, but that also which from the posity of actions, doth usually proceed. For since it is so, that most of those things which we either speak or do are unnecessary, if a man shall cut them off, it must needs follow that he shall thereby gain much leisure and save much trouble. And therefore at every action a man must privately, by way of admonition, suggest unto himself, what, may not this that now I go about be of the number of unnecessary actions? Neither must he use