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 battle-axe.—­Whipple.