Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Punctuality is the thief of time. Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have Something sensational to read in the train.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Better never than late.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.