“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music”

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are”

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body”

“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable ”

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”