When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
Where the law is uncertain there is no law.
Where there is no law there is no transgression.
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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