All things are in motion. The material, animal, and moral world are perpetually changing. There has been a constant succession of rising and falling empires from Nimrod. The political world is still in convulsions. One nation is falling into the hands of another. Large kingdoms are crumbling to pieces. Societies, civil, religious, and literary, are subject to continual changes. Families are changing from generation to generation. Individuals are still more liable to perpetual changes of body and of mind. Men are perpetually changing circumstances, rank, characters, customs and manners, opinions and pursuits. The fashion of the world passeth away.
Also attributed to: Emmons
The point
All things -- nations, societies, families, individuals -- are in constant, unavoidable change; the fashion of this world passes away.