Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

The saying condenses a 19th-century “hygienic” philosophy of health into a handful of imperatives: regulate pace (“never hurry”), cultivate bodily vigor (exercise), maintain emotional tone (cheerfulness), and respect physiological restoration (sleep). Its final sentence—“You may expect to be well”—frames health not as a guarantee but as a reasonable outcome of steady habits. Read as moral counsel as much as medical advice, it treats wellness as a product of self-governance and temperament, reflecting an era when clergy-intellectuals often wrote about health in the language of character, moderation, and daily discipline.