How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Original Text

We are nearly all chancellors of the exchequer: it is the pride of the moment.Newspapers are full of articles explaining how to live on such-and-such a sum, andthese articles provoke a correspondence whose violence proves the interest theyexcite. Recently, in a daily organ, a battle raged round the question whether awoman can exist nicely in the country on L85 a year. I have seen an essay, "How tolive on eight shillings a week." But I have never seen an essay, "How to live ontwenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. That proverbunderstates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time youcan obtain money-usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-roomattendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than Ihave, or the cat by the fire has.