I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.
Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.