Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and tomorrow we may never see
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human