Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Time itself is an element.

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.