“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald《The Great Gatsby》

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

— Charles Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

— Oscar Wilde《The Picture of Dorian Gray》

“But Friendship is a noble thing-- Of Friendship it is good to sing, For truly when a man shall end, He lives in memory of his friend Who doth his better part recall And of his faults make funeral!”

— Arthur Stringer《The Prairie Wife》

“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》

“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”

— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》

“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”

— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》

“He turned his eyes upon the secrets of his heart, and read an evil story,—the story of the past, and he covered his face for shame, while, keeping time to the dull pain throbbing in his head, his heart beat out the story for the future.”

— Robert W. Chambers《The King in Yellow》

“We are the champions, my friends.”

— Freddie Mercury《We Are the Champions》

“Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》

“The sons and daughters of the Love-Star instantly ceased their own soft musical conversation, and Zaidie sang the old plantation song through for the first time that a human voice had sung it to ears other than human.”

— George Griffith《A Honeymoon in Space》

“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.”

— William Shakespeare《Hamlet》