The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

He was a very good hater.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this - their ability to preserve o…

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no …

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inani…