This time,like all times, is a good time, if we but know what to do with it.

This time is a very good one if we but know what to do with it

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The years teach much the days never know.