To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.