CHAPTER XX.

THE VALUE OF TIME.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

Longfellow.

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I. Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. ward is offered, for they are gone forever. Mrs. Sigourney.

2. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. Theophrastus. 3. Thy yesterday is thy past; thy to-day, thy future; thy to-morrow is a secret.

Talmud.

4. He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost.

Thomas Fuller.

5. Defer no time; delays have dangerous

ends.

Shakespeare.

6. By the streets of "by and by," one arrives at the house of "never."

Cervantes.

7. Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. Gothe.

8. The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. Addison.

9. Know the true value of time; search, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till to-morrow what you can do today. Lord Chesterfield. 10. There is no saying that shocks me so much as that which I hear very often, "that a man does not know how to pass his time." It would have been but ill-spoken by Methusaleh in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth year of his life. Abraham Cowley.

II. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has not lost time.

Lord Bacon.

12. Very few people are good economists

of their fortune, and still fewer of their time. Lord Chesterfield.

13. Man is the servant of time, and time is the enemy of man. Arabian Proverb.

14. Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business. Duke of Wellington.

15. Make use of time, if thou lovest eternity: know, yesterday cannot be recalled, to-morrow cannot be assured, to-day is only thine; which if thou procrastinate, thou losest; which lost, is lost forever: one to-day is worth two to-morrows. Quarles.

16. Time wasted is existence; used, is Edward Young.

life. 17. Time is the king of men; he is both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

Shakespeare.

18. When young, our years are ages; in mature life, they are three and sixty-five days; in old age, they have dwindled to a few weeks. Time is, indeed, the messenger

with wings at his feet. Yesterday he took my wife; to-day, my son; to-morrow he will take me. Mme. de Gasparin.

19. To-morrow! it is a period nowhere to be found in all the hoary register of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Colton. 20. You will never "find" time. If you want time, you must make it.

Charles Buxton.

21. Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it. Schopenhauer. 22. Let us the important "now" employ, and live as those who never die.

Robert Burns.

23. When one does nothing else but while time away, it must, of necessity, often be a burden. Gæthe.

24. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles.

25. A man that is young in years may be

old in hours, if he has lost no time.

Lord Bacon.

26. Many people take no care of their money till they have come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Gæthe.

27. The three things most difficult are— to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. Chilo.

28. The advantage of living does not consist in length of days, but in the right improvement of them. As many days as we pass without doing some good, are so many days entirely lost. Montaigne.

29. If we calculate the time of life for seventy years, and take from it the time of our infancy and childhood, sleep and recreation, eating and drinking, sickness and old age, but a very little will remain for service. Cannot be traced.

30. Make the most of your minute; and be good for something while it is in your power. Marcus Aurelius.

31. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles. Rev. John Mason.