Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.