The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

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

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.

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.