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- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. — Victor Hugo
- It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either. — Doug Coupland
- Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet
- Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. — Ernest Dimnet
- A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. — Ernest Dimnet