Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — The Value of Time. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Time.

The hours of a wise man are length ened by hl* ideas as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long because he does not know what to do with it So is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts, or, in other words, because the one is always wishing ft away and other is always enjoying it. We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age, then to be a man of business, then to retire. Thus, although the whole life is allowed by every one to be short, the several divisions of it ap pear long and tedious.—Addison.