There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change. The Universe is change.
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been 'great changes.'