Benjamin Franklin

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.