Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

In matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred, it will be stilled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law, than that he should escape.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas, in order to appear consistent, drives himself into a false position.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Hatred which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

At his best man is the noblest of all animals, separated from law and justice he is the worst.