The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

More from Charles Haddon Spurgeon

• Learn to say "no." It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
• Mind your till, and till your mind.
• It won’t be an easy journey. It’ll be long, and arduous. But I promise you one thing: on the memory of those lying here before you, we shall find it, and Earth shall become our new home. So say we all!
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.