The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

Nothing touches your skin of sweat(meltdown of oceanic kisses)when the purple lightwhispers to the moon in silent moonlit clarity

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Civilized nations build libraries

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

I won't trade humanity for patriotism.

A good city is like a good party. People don't want to leave early.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one.