Writing to a youth who had obtained a situation and asked him for advice, he gave this counsel: "Beware of stumbling over a propensity which easily besets you from not having your time fully employed--I mean what the women call dawdling.

Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of recreation after business, never before it." Not too much can be said about the value of the habit of rising early.
Eight hours is enough sleep for any man.

Very frequently seven hours is plenty.

After the eighth hour in bed, if a man is able, it is his business to get up, dress quickly, and go to work.
"A singular mischance has happened to some of our friends," said Hamilton.

"At the instant when He ushered them into existence, God gave them a work to do, and He also gave them a competence of time; so much that if they began at the right moment, and wrought with sufficient vigor, their time and their work would end together.