All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if read more

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.

Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive
to the least powerful in our society.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive
to the least powerful in our society.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.

Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.