"I made a posy while the day ran by; Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, * And wither'd in my hand."

"Rich with the spoils of time."

": Time is itself an element."

"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element."

": My inheritance, how wide and fair Time is my estate; to Time I'm heir."

"Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit; Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit."

": Long is the calm brain active in creation; Time only strengthens the fine fermentation."

"Ein stiller Geist ist Jahre lang geschäftig; Die Zeit nur macht die feine Gährung kräftig."

": Thus at Time's humming loom I ply."

"So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit."

"I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons. Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee, If thou art far from or art near to me: If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes; If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes."

"The four eights, that ideal of operative felicity, are here (New Zealand) a realized fact."

": Procrastination brings loss, delay danger."

"Dilatio damnum habet, mora periculum."

"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."

"Let us leave hurry to slaves."

"Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours Should not be numbered by years, daies and hours."

"And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass."

"(Time) with his silent sickle."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

"When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray."

"Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling."

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life."

"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!… his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes."

": The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."

"Che'l perder tempo a chi più sa più spiace."

"Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow."

"See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face."

"Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound."

"His time's forever, everywhere his place."

"Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last."

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on."

"Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!"