Quotes
Quotes about Law
That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape.
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
One Universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of Being, and one Law, the Reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one Truth.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs,--for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.
Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
Necessity has no law.
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
Or almost like a spider, who, confin'd
In her web's centre, shakt with every winde,
Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie
Stir but a string of her lawn canapie.
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God--All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct.... To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
To the law and to the testimony.
According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
The law is open.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
