A curious feature of the way many honest men looked at the West was their inability to see how essentially transient were some of the characteristics to which they objected.

It gives a lasting satisfaction instead of a merely transient satisfaction: "the true good ... is an end in which the effort of a moral agent can really find rest."

Very warm weather in autumn hastens the coloring process, and renders the hues proportionally transient.

Otherwise I don't know of any lilies of the field, barring the hotel people, and they, being purely transient, don't count.

That he devotes so much space to the seemingly transient and unimportant love-affairs of his youth is only his way of recognizing that the poet-soul is born of love and nourished by love.