The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts — or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.

The Spectator (18 June 1711)