I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive. 

If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.