I suppose by the time one is seventy one can say confidently and from personal experience that things will pass. At thirty one is still living experimentally, guessing that they will yet almost hoping that they will not.

Pym in London.

Each of us has to choose, in the course of his brief life, between endless striving and wise resignation, between the delights of disorder and those of stability, between Titan or Olympian...To choose between them, or to succeed, at last, in bringing them into accord.