We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.