Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

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.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.