The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

Possession is nine tenths of the law.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.