"If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost."

"In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea."

"I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail."

"Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell."

"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."