I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

She / Was married, charming, chaste, and twenty-three.

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire -- in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

The best of prophets of the future is the past