CHAPTER XI.
AT ONCE.
Note the sublime precision that leads the earth over a circuit of 500,000,000 miles back to the solstice at the appointed moment without the loss of one second--no, not the millionth part of a second--for ages and ages of which it traveled that imperial road.
-- EDWARD EVERETT.
Despatch is the soul of business.
-- CHESTERFIELD.
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty.

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
-- HORACE MANN.
By the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never.
-- CERVANTES.
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
-- H.

W.SHAW.
"Oh, how I do appreciate a boy who is always on time!" says H.C.Bowen.
"How quickly you learn to depend on him, and how soon you find yourself intrusting him with weightier matters! The boy who has acquired a reputation for punctuality has made the first contribution to the capital that in after years makes his success a certainty!" "Nothing commends a young man so much to his employers," says John Stuart Blackie, "as accuracy and punctuality in the conduct of his business.

And no wonder.

On each man's exactitude depends the comfortable and easy going of his machine.