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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

I was never ruined but twice; once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.

Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.