What does this quote mean?

“In a world where all is fleeting, change alone endures.”

Stability is temporary, so practical judgment requires expecting change rather than treating present arrangements as permanent.

Source note: Counsels and Maxims, T. Bailey Saunders translation, in a discussion of fortune and apparent stability.

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”

Change is treated as the condition of the world, while our experience of life is shaped by judgment.

Source note: Meditations, Book IV, in George Long’s translation.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

The verse places change inside a larger rhythm of seasons and purposes, making it useful for thinking about acceptance when one phase of life gives way to another.

Source note: Ecclesiastes 3:1 in the King James Version, opening the sequence of contrasting times and seasons.

“The future is yet to come”

The brief phrase anchors Hazlitt’s argument that the future does not possess greater reality merely because it has not happened yet; he compares its status with the already completed past.

Source note: Table-Talk, essay III, “On the Past and Future.” This is a short excerpt from Hazlitt’s comparison of past, present and future, not a standalone prediction about what the future will contain.

“We make the coming age our own.”

Youth is portrayed as imaginatively possessing the future before experience has imposed clear limits, turning coming time into a field of possibility rather than scarcity.

Source note: On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth, first published March 1827. The sentence belongs to Hazlitt’s account of expansive youthful expectation and should not be treated as a literal claim of control over the future.

“Let the dead Past bury its dead!”

The poem rejects living backward and immediately redirects attention toward action available in the present.

Source note: A Psalm of Life, in the stanza beginning “Trust no Future.”