"<p>If someone doesn't arrive at the meeting at the agreed time - be it a man or a woman, a friend or a stranger - you can wait fifteen minutes. Then leave. And if you cannot excuse yourself with a legitimate excuse, do not seek the company of such a person again. Keep no anger or resentment in your heart, for it is unworthy of a man. But give no more occasion to the other to keep you waiting. People insult each other out of meanness and cowardice. Making people wait is such an arrogant insult.</p> <p>In all, everything you do, be precise to the second. You cannot be so tired, so sad, or so listless, as to sin against the law of polite punctuality. Punctuality is not only the courtesy of kings, but the duty of all responsible men of rank. He is a man of first rank who is punctual without interest. The sluggard, the slothful, the frivolous man is always late. Such a man is, after all, late for the great meeting of life: the meeting of self-knowledge.</p>"