If a star or planet were delayed one second, it might throw the whole universe out of harmony.
"There is no moment like the present," said Maria Edgeworth; "not only so, there is no moment at all, no instant force and energy, but in the present.

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hopes from them afterward.

They will be dissipated, lost in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence." Cobbett said he owed his success to being "always ready" more than to all his natural abilities combined.
"To this quality I owed my extraordinary promotion in the army," said he.

"If I had to mount guard at ten, I was ready at nine; never did any man or anything wait one minute for me." "How," asked a man of Sir Walter Raleigh, "do you accomplish so much, and in so short a time ?" "When I have anything to do, I go and do it," was the reply.

The man who always acts promptly, even if he makes occasional mistakes, will succeed when a procrastinator, even if he have the better judgment, will fail.
When asked how he managed to accomplish so much work, and at the same time attend to his social duties, a French statesman replied, "I do it simply by never postponing till to-morrow what should be done to-day." It was said of an unsuccessful public man that he used to reverse this process, his favorite maxim being "never to do to-day what might be postponed till to-morrow." How many men have dawdled away their success and allowed companions and relatives to steal it away five minutes at a time! "To-morrow, didst thou say ?" asked Cotton.