Transience

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Remember that lost time does not return.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again

For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness

In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth

Life is a predicament which precedes death.