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• Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain the riches he can ne'er enjoy.
  -- Alexander Pope...
• The man who lives in the past, robs the present.
• The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
  -- Martial (40-102 AD) -- Epigram x, 23...
• Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book vii, Line 210...
• And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 434...
• He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Eloisa to Abelard, Last line...
• He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
• Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Alexander Pope
• Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xviii, Line 103...