May 30

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

SURELY he had prospered in life! And again, as of old, the sense of gratitude seemed to bring with it the sense also of a living person at his side.

For still, in a shadowy world, his deeper wisdom had ever been, with a sense of economy, with a jealous estimate of gain and loss, to use life, not as the means to some problematic end, but, as far as might be, from dying hour to dying hour, an end in itself—a kind of music, allsufficing to the duly trained ear, even as it died out on the air.

WALTER PATER, Marius the Epicurean

RHYTHMIC LIFE

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.