~ Laws are never as effective as habits. ~
~ Once victim, always victim - that's the law! ~
~ One with the law is a majority. ~
~ Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger. ~
~ The law often allows what honor forbids. ~
~ A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. ~
~ Where law ends, there tyranny begins. ~
~ Law should be like death, which spares no one. ~
~ Laws can discover sin, but not remove it. ~
~ The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. ~
~ The laws sometimes sleep, but never die. ~
~ Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. ~