By breakfast time he had broken the neck of the day's work, as he used to say.

Writing to a youth who had obtained a situation and asked him for advice, he gave this counsel: "Beware of stumbling over a propensity which easily besets you from not having your time fully employed--I mean what the women call dawdling.

Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it." Frederick the Great had a maxim: "Time is the only treasure of which it is proper to be avaricious." Leibnitz declared that "the loss of an hour is the loss of a part of life." Napoleon, who knew the value of time, remarked that it was the quarter hours that won battles.

The value of minutes has been often recognized, and any person watching a railway clerk handing out tickets and change during the last few minutes available must have been struck with how much could be done in these short periods of time.
At the appointed hour the train starts and by and by is carrying passengers at the rate of sixty miles an hour.

In a second you are carried twenty-nine yards.