The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.