Let the present and future alone occupy your thoughts.

They will give you food for reflection, sufficient to bury all former unhappiness, and to entail upon you a return of that earthly joy you once possessed." "Your remarks are correct in theory, my friend," replied Alfred, "but they cannot be put into practice.

Sooner can the Mississippi river be drained of its waters than the inexorable Past be obliterated from the mind of man.

It must ever remain in his memory, and though at times it may lie dormant, the slightest event will be all that is necessary to awake it into life.

The cares of the present may deprive it of active participation in the mind; anxiety for the future may prevent the mind of man from actively recurring to it, but it still remains indelibly imprinted on the memory, and though a century of years should pass, and the changes of Time render the Present opposite to the Past, the latter can never be forgotten.