Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.