The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Right... is the child of law.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.