The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.