I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours ever… - Philip Dormer Stanhope

I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

Take warning then by them: choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice.