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“It is eternity now.”
Jefferies collapses ordinary chronological distinctions into an intensely experienced present, describing the current moment as participation in eternity rather than a point merely passing toward the future.
Source note: The Story of My Heart, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #2317. This is Jefferies’s speculative spiritual autobiography and the statement is philosophical-poetic, not a scientific theory of time.
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“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.
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“There is no Wealth but Life.”
Ruskin makes human life and its capacities the final measure of wealth, challenging definitions that treat accumulated money or goods as sufficient evidence of national well-being.
Source note: Unto This Last, fourth essay, first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1860 and collected in book form in 1862; Project Gutenberg #36541. This is Ruskin’s normative political-economy argument, not a modern empirical wealth metric.
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“life is the end and aim of consumption.”
Consumption is judged by what it ultimately does for human life, making economic activity a means rather than an end in itself within Ruskin’s argument.
Source note: Unto This Last, fourth essay; Project Gutenberg #36541. The line follows Ruskin’s distinction between production and consumption and retains the nineteenth-century political-economy setting.
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“Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
The repeated ‘now’ intensifies Jefferies’s claim that spiritual significance is experienced in the present rather than postponed to a distant future or afterlife.
Source note: The Story of My Heart, Chapter I; Project Gutenberg #2317. Jefferies is articulating a personal metaphysical intuition, so the source note preserves its spiritual and literary character.
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“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.