When you're finished changing, you're finished.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.