“Suppose then that in our retrospect of life and in the estimation of our errors, we mark off all those misdoings for which our conscience duly charges us with direct responsibility.”
“It is easy in retrospect to second-guess your decisions and wish you had made different choices.”
“In retrospect, drinking industrial quantities of beer was maybe not the best thing to do while still convalescing.”
“But by the time they came to embalm the nation thirty years later, each eliminated virtually any reference to its external record from their retrospections.”
“But she finds great pleasure in such retrospections, great pleasure.”
“Your retrospections must be so totally void of reproach, that the contentment arising from them is not of philosophy, but, what is much better, of innocence.”