Arnold Bennett

next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

And our excuse to ourselves is that there are only twenty-four hours in the day.

We are obliged, by various codes written and unwritten, to maintain ourselves and our families (if any) in health and comfort, to pay our debts, to save, to increase our prosperity by increasing our efficiency. A task sufficiently difficult! A task which very few of us achieve! A task often beyond our skill!

just as nothing succeeds like success, so nothing fails like failure

People say: "One can't help one's thoughts." But one can

Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

Time is a great deal more than money.

How to live on twenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. Tha

twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. A highly singular commodity, showered upon you in a manner as singular as the commodity itself!
For remark! No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive

That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money—usually