Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.
You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.
