Excerpt from Half Hours With Old Humphrey It is much better to improve time than to be able to define it; and if I can impress your minds with the value of time, I may do something towards the attainment of this desirable object. Listen, then, to the words of Old Humphrey. Time - silent, stealthy, and unstaying Time, with sinewy frame and capacious wings, watched his hour-glass. The elements were around him war was at work; plague, pestilence, and famine pursued their course; disease was slaying his thousands, and intemperance his ten thousands; but Time regarded them not. He only regarded his hour-glass, and the sands ran on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.