"How blessings brighten as they take their flight."
"Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell."
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Source: Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.77
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