I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice