C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Moments

When Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Byron.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

Mme. de Staël.

There is not a moment without some duty.

Cicero.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Schiller.

A moment is a mighty thing
Beyond the soul’s imagination;
For in it, though we trace it not,
How much there crowds of varied lot
How much of life, life cannot see,
Darts onward to eternity!

Robert Montgomery.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Zimmermann.

The present moment is a powerful deity.

Goethe.

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