The New Hampshire Gazette

TIME.—Time is the only gift or commodity of which every man who lives has just the same share. The passing day is exactly of the same dimensions to each of us, and by no contrivance can any of us extend its duration by so much as a minute or a second. It is not like a sum of money which we can employ in trade or put out to interest, and thereby add to or multiply its amount. The amount is unalterable. We cannot "make it breed," we cannot even keep it by us, Whether we will or not, we must spend it; and all our power over it, therefore, consists in the manner in which it is spent. Part with it we must; but we may give it either for something or nothing. Its mode of escaping from us, however, being very subtle and silent, we are exceedingly apt, because we do not feel it passing out of our hands, like so much told coin, to forget that we are parting with it at all; and thus by mere heedlessness, the precious possession is allowed to flow away as if it were a thing of no value. The first and principle rule, therefore, in regard to the economising and right employment of time, is to habituate ourselves to watch it.—Lib. Ent. Knowledge.