A simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
He was a man with a chest, and he wanted to give thoughtful expression to the passion of his heart.
Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.
It is always healthy to be honest.
The problem arises when a society respects its scholars lesser and lesser and replaces intellectualism with anti-intellectualism. Such society forces the most intellectual members of its, toward alien...
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Pa...
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intel...
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.