Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.