What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578

There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889