“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”

Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (December 1847/early 1848)
Context: Had Shakespeare and Milton lived in the atmosphere of modern feeling, had they had the multitude of new thoughts and feelings to deal with a modern has, I think it likely the style of each would have been far less curious and exquisite. For in a man style is the saying in the best way what you have to say. The what you have to say depends on your age. In the 17th century it was a smaller harvest than now, and sooner to be reaped; and therefore to its reaper was left time to stow it more finely and curiously. Still more was this the case in the ancient world. The poet's matter being the hitherto experience of the world, and his own, increases with every century.

As quoted in The Unpractised Heart (1942) by Leonard Alfred George Strong, p. 147

a university student asked me several years ago.
"Its brevity" I replied without hesitation. … Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work" (John 9:4). … Life is short, and every day is a gift from God.

Just As I Am : The Autobiography of Billy Graham (1997), co-written with Cliff Barrows

Reflections on the Psalms (1958), p. 73

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.

Source: Sea Without a Shore (1996), Chapter 38 (p. 551)

Source: 2000s, Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World (2002), p. 133