Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
Nought endures but change.
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.
You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.