A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy