1608
Lord Nelson used to say: "I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me."
1609
Horace Mann said:—Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
1610
To be unpunctual is sometimes considered a mark of consequence by little great men, but the truly great have always thought differently.
1611
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into decay.
—Smiles.