The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.