I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.