Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old. - George Berkeley

That we have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

Abstract terms (however useful they may be in argument) should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.