Joseph Henshaw Quote

Man's life is like unto a winter's day,—
Some break their fast and so depart away;
Others stay dinner, then depart full fed;
The longest age but sups and goes to bed.
O reader, then behold and see!
As we are now, so must you be.

Horæ Sucissive (1631), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).