Law

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides

In law, nothing is certain but the expense

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer

In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.”

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority

Paper napkins never return from a laundry - nor love from a trip to the law courts

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner

If you violate nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable

Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet