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. He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.-SCHILLER.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce. -HORACE.

If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.-T. C. UPHAM.

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. -COLTON.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, -as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours.—FULLER.

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.-CORNEILLE.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.MISS EDGEWORTH.

Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.-VICTOR HUGO.

Every day is a gift I receive from Heaven; let us enjoy to-day that which it bestows on me. It belongs not more to the young than to me, and to-morrow belongs to no one.—MANCROIX.

One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.—EMERSON.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.-WHITTIER.

Press. In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. —JAMES A. GarfiELD.

The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day.-CHAPIN.

Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights. -JUNIUS.

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal.-CHATFIELD.

The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battleaxe.-WHIPPLE.

Pretension. It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.—WHATELY.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: nature never pretends. —LAVATER.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.-SPURGEON.

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.-CICERO.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. - PLU

TARCH.

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.-LAVATER. The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.-LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.-LAVATER.

Pride. Without the sovereign influence of God's extraordinary and immediate grace, men do very rarely put off all the trappings of their pride, till they who are about them put on their winding-sheet.-CLARENDON.

Pride and weakness are Siamese twins. LOWELL.

Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

-POPE.

It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves but by undervaluing our neighbors. —CLARENDON.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.-ARCHBISHOP TRENCH.

Some people are proud of their humility. — BEECHER.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.-COLTON.

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. -ROSCOMMON.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.-STERNE.

There is this paradox in pride, -it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.-COLTON.

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. -FRANKLIN.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!-JOAQUIN MILLER.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.-FRANKLIN.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.—PROVERBS 16: 18.

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.LEGOUVÉ.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.-BEECHER.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.-LOUIS XI.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.-HOSEA BALLOU.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.-LYTTON.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. -DR. JOHNSON.

An avenging God closely follows the haughty.— SENECA.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.-QUARLES.

The proud man is forsaken of God.-PLATO.

Procrastination.-Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.— REV. DR. CHEEVER.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.-TILLOTSON.

By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never."-CERVANTES.