To what profit we could use the time for our present task that we
spend in impatient waiting and wondering over the future! So often
the future is just one step up from the present, but some of us miss
it by preferring to wait for an elevator.

--M. B. S.

Prepare to live by all means, but for heaven's sake do not forget to
live. You will never have a better chance than you have at present.
You may think you will have, but you are mistaken.

--Arnold Bennett.

He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his
business at night; while laziness travels so slowly that poverty
soon overtakes him. He that lives on hope will die fasting.

--Benjamin Franklin.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there
is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither
thou goest.

--Ecclesiastes 9. 10.

Gracious Father, my heart burns with shame when I think how much I
claim, and how little I am. I pray that my body may not cast a shadow
to-day, and cloud the light of my life to-morrow. Cleanse the windows
of my soul that I may take in thy glory. Amen.