Who said “The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”?

“The future is purchased by the present.”

“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.”

“The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.”

“The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.”

“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.”

“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

“How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

“Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.”

“Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.”