A Cure for Laziness

From Thomas Case, Select Works, A Treatise on Afflictions (quoted in Voices From the Past)

In affliction God teaches us to redeem the time. When life is tranquil, how many golden hours we throw down the stream that we shall never see again. Who is there that knows how to value time at its true worth? Most men waste it as if they had more time than they could ever spend. We make short seasons even shorter.