As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people have lost their authentic personal taste, they lose their personality and become the instruments of other people's wills.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.