All history is strewn with its brilliant victims, the wrecks of half-finished plans and unexecuted resolutions.

It is the favorite refuge of sloth and incompetency.
"Strike while the iron is hot," and "Make hay while the sun shines," are golden maxims.
Very few people recognize the hour when laziness begins to set in.
Some people it attacks after dinner; some after lunch; and some after seven o'clock in the evening.

There is in every person's life a crucial hour in the day, which must be employed instead of wasted if the day is to be saved.

With most people the early morning hour becomes the test of the day's success.
A person was once extolling the skill and courage of Mayenne in Henry's presence.

"You are right," said Henry, "he is a great captain, but I have always five hours' start of him." Henry rose at four in the morning, and Mayenne at about ten.