Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.