To serve God is for every one to remain in his vocation and calling, be it ever so mean and simple. It is said, occasion has a forelock, but is bald behind. Our Lord has taught this by the course of nature. When apples are ripe they must be plucked from the tree, or they are spoiled. Procrastination is as bad as overhastiness.
Occasion is a great matter.
Boys at school understand it not, therefore they must have fathers and masters, with the rod to hold them thereto, that they neglect not time, and lose it. O, I have time enough yet. What little Jack learns not, great John learns not. Germany would be much richer than she is, if such store of velvets and silks were not worn, nor so much spice used, or so much beer drunk. Tacitus wrote, that by the ancient Germans it was held no shame at all to drink and swill four and twenty hours together.