Punctuality is contagious.

Napoleon infused promptness into his officers every minute.
What power there is in promptness to take the drudgery out of a disagreeable task.
"A singular mischance has happened to some of our friends," said Hamilton.

"At the instant when He ushered them into existence, God gave them work to do, and He also gave them a competency of time; so much that if they began at the right moment and wrought with sufficient vigor, their time and their work would end together.

But a good many years ago a strange misfortune befell them.

A fragment of their allotted time was lost.