All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to read more

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there read more

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.

For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated read more

For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.