Change is impossible — The tail of the greyhound will not be made straight even though it remains seven years in the melting-pot.

Change is always possible — Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.

Change is unlikely in a great man — A god does not change his ways.

Change is all about timing — It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fear is many-eyed.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear is the mother of superstition.

Grief is a room without doors.

Grief is the essence of humanity — Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Grief is a great struggle — grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Grief is a developer of the powers of the mind.

Habit is the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habit is that into which uncertainty disappears.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.