Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

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.

There is an incredible beauty in your touch, it can heal the gravest wounds. And in your smile, that can easily mend any broken heart.

If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.