Angels are winged with God's power.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.

Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.