The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

  Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 't were but a hair's-breadth of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. iii. 10.

  I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry (1736-1799): Speech in the Virginia Convention. March, 1775.

  'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

Michael De Montaigne (1533-1592): Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.

  In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the "San Josef," exclaiming "Westminster Abbey, or victory!"

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805): Life of Nelson (Southey). Vol. i. p. 93.

  Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (1708-1778): Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770.

  Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. iv. 50.