“Change affects only the form of a thing, not its substance.”
“Conviction affects all substances in the vicinity.”
“Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.”
“It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.”
“Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.”
“Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.”