Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.