Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.