Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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.

Right... is the child of law.

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

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

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.