We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.

No court can make time stand still.

'Where the eagle glides ascending / There's an ancient river bending / Through the timeless gorge of changes / Where sleeplessness awaits' - ''Thrasher' (Rust …

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke, In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure, In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pier…