“...what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but- the provisional permanence of certain changes.”
“Nothing in this world is permanent, the only thing that's permanent is change.”
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”
“intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.”