Life is probation:  mortal man was made
To solve the solemn problem—­right or wrong. 
—­John Quincy Adams.

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.—­Lady Rachel Russell.

Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone;
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. 

                                    —­Dr. Watts.

And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.—­William Penn.

We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs.  He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

          
                          —­Bailey.

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him: 
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;
And,—­when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening,—­nips his root,
And then he falls. 

          
                          —­Shakespeare.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.—­Socrates.

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.—­Job 8:9.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life.  Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.—­James A. Garfield.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.—­Dr. Johnson.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke and found that life was duty. 
—­Ellen Sturgis Hooper.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.—­William Penn.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.—­Bishop Ken.

Light.—­We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth, and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.—­CAUSSIN.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.—­Milton.

Light itself is a great corrective.  A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.—­James A. Garfield.

I am the light of the world.—­John 9:5.