Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

The more laws, the more offenders.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Laws are to govern all alike-those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know of no method to repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.