What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?

And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.