Injunction

But I summon you to fulfil another engagement. Make me a visit next summer. You will find here a bad house, a pleasant country in summer, some books, and very little strange company. Such a plan of life for two or three months must, I should imagine, suit a man who has been for as many years struck from one end of Europe to the other like a tennis-ball. At least I judge of you by myself. I always loved a quiet, studious, indolent life but never enjoyed the charms of it so truly as since my return from an agreeable but fatiguing course of motion and hurry.

Edward Gibbon, letter to J. B. Holroyd, October 31, 1765