There is a deep significance in the lines of Whittier:-- This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin; This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin.
Time is money.

We should not be stingy or mean with it, but we should not throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a dollar-bill.
Waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation.

It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back.

Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.
"And it is left for each," says Edward Everett, "by the cultivation of every talent, by watching with an eagle's eye for every chance of improvement, by redeeming time, defying temptation, and scorning sensual pleasure, to make himself useful, honored, and happy.".