“What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.”

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

“Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.”

“New worlds are always hard on old ideas.”

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”

“No counsel in the world that understand themselves, can argue anything against what has been often settled and always practised.”

“Wherever it has had free play in the ancient world or in the modern, in the old hemisphere or the new, a thirst for empire, and a readiness for aggressive war, has always marked it.”

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

“Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost ca be both ennobling and painful.”