Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river. - Mary Renault

For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said.

That there are fashions in admiration and denigration is inevitable; they should not however be followed at the expense of truth.

In his imagination the pages were printed not with their own paragraphs only, but with all that he himself had brought to them: it seemed as though he must be identified and revealed in them, beyond all pretence of detachment, as if they were a diary to which he had committed every secret of his heart.