Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The past is behind, learn from it.The future is ahead, prepare for it.The present is here, live it.