"Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards till ten, when I begin to work, I read Reformation; from ten, I work until about a quarter to one; from one until two, I lunch and read a book on Schopenhauer or one on Positivism; two to three work, three to six any thing; if I am in before six I read about Japan: six, dinner and a pipe with my father and coffee until 7.30; 7.30 to 9.30 work; after that either supper and a pipe at home, or out to Simpson’s or Baxter’s: bed between eleven and twelve."

— Robert Louis Stevenson’s schedule, November 1874.