He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

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.

I may not have money, but I am not poor.

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece.

For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.