لا يُصغى إلى واعظٍ سوى الزمن، الذي يمنحنا ذات التسلسل وذات منعطفات الفكر التي حاول كبار السنّ عبثًا أن يغرسوها في رؤوسنا من قبل.

“No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.”Jonathan Swift — The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin: Accurately Revised in Six Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates : with Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes Historical and Explanatory (1755)