One of the Seven was wont to say 'Laws were like cobwebs where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.'
One of the Seven was wont to say 'Laws were like cobwebs where the small flies were caught, and the great brake through.'
There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.
When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a lawbreaker.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
That law may be set down as good which is certain in meaning, just in precept, convenient in execution, agreeable to the form of government, and productive of virtue in those that live under it.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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