Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

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.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

I hope to see London once ere I die.