“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”

“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”

“Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”