Our Daily Bill: Carpe Diem

I can’t bear people who always take for granted that one’s main object is to save up one’s health and strength, eyesight and what not, for when one is sixty. How on earth can they tell whether one is going to reach thirty? I think it’s better to wear a thing while it’s good and new, patching the odd corners as they wear out, instead of putting it away carefully year after year till at last the moths get in, and you find it’s no good when at last you think you will wear it.

– E.A. Wilson, on ending his treatment at Davos, 1899
from Edward Wilson of the Antarctic, pg 57