The best use of good laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Government can easily exist without law, but law cannot exist without government.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.