"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." — Charles Lamb

Lawyer: One skilled in circumvention of the law

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future

Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)

Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

Source: Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 March 1776

Men are but children of a larger growth.

Source: All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost (1677)

It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.

Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.

Source: The Law (1850), What Is Law?

Charles Lamb Quote

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