We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon read more

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

God overrides
at times the
screenplay of
Her starscript.

God overrides
at times the
screenplay of
Her starscript.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,
Where high-born men were read more

How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,
Where high-born men were proud to wait--
Where Beauty watched to imitate.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. read more

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people\'s minds.

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another read more

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his
mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta
sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, read more

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found read more

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.