“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality, since, as he elsewhere tells us, lost time is never found again, and what we call time-enough, always proves little enough: let us then be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”

These words have inspired me into action with not one but three typefaces based on time which I’m currently developing (among other things) while looking for that elusive first full-time studio job.

Here’s the full extract from Benjamin Franklin’s “The way to wealth” 1733