CHAPTER XIX.
THE MEANING OF OPPORTUNITIES.
"'To-day' unsullied comes to thee--newborn, To-morrow is not thine; The sun may cease to shine For thee, ere earth shall greet its morn.
"Be earnest, then, in thought and deed, Nor fear approaching night; Calm comes with evening light, And hope and peace.

Thy duty heed 'to-day.'" -- RUSKIN.
If people's first thoughts were but as good and wise as their after-thoughts, life would be better and more beautiful than it is.

We can all see our errors more clearly after we have committed them than we saw them before.

We frequently hear persons utter the wish that they could go again over a certain period of their life, saying that they would live it differently, that they would not repeat the mistakes or follies which had so marred and stained the record they had made.
Of course the wish that one might have a second chance with any past period of time is altogether vain.

No doubt there ofttimes is much reason for shame and pain in our retrospects.