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Value of Spare Minutes

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 28.

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Value of Spare Minutes.

MADAME de Genlis composed several charming volumes while waiting in the school-room for the tardy princes to whom she gave daily lessons.
Dagnesseau, one of the chancellors of France, wrote an able and bulky work in the successive intervals of waiting for dinner.
Elihu Burritt, when earning his living as a blacksmith, learned eighteen languages and twenty-two dialects, by simply improving his "spare moments."
A celebrated physician in London translated Lucretius while riding in his carriage upon his daily rounds.
Dr. Darwin composed nearly all his works in the same way, writing down his thoughts in a memorandum book which he carried for the purpose.
Kirk White also learned Greek while walking to and fro from a lawyer's office.—Selected.