“Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power”
“Mr. Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.”
“it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain”
“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”
“Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.”