“No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.”

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.

We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

No law is quite appropriate for all.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn’t always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Let’s make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake – you know, to send the right message to kids.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.