"I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it."

— Grandma Moses 🍂

"Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been."

— John Greenleaf Whittier 🍂

"That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present."

— Sydney Smith 🍂

"The past is one evil less and one memory more."

— Elbert Hubbard 🍂

"Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference."

— Anonymous 🍂

"The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present."

— Marcel Proust 🍂

"The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it."

— Madame de Stael 🍂

""Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better."

— George E. Woodberry 🍂