Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.