“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
“In all weathers, wet or fine, it is my practice to go, towards five o’clock in the evening, to take a turn in the Palais Royal.Source: Diderot and the Encyclopædists, Volume II
“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away
“I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour
“Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge