Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law

You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for the labors of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers

I was thinking, maybe, the child was still alive.

Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break

Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him.