“Glance backward, look heavenward, reach outward, press onward”
“Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.”
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
“Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.”
“What is past, one cannot change,so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”