It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.