“Only a
great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings,
will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is
very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that
became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another
man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth
exchanging for his own precious time.”
…
“Everyone
rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom
with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who
plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.”