every atom of
the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.--_Ruskin._

It would be very singular if this great shad-net of the law did not
enable men to catch at something, balking for the time the eternal
flood-tide of justice.--_Chapin._

True law is right reason conformably to nature, universal, unchangeable,
eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain
us from evil.--_Cicero._

Aristotle himself has said, speaking of the laws of his own country,
that jurisprudence, or the knowledge of those laws, is the principal and
most perfect branch of ethics.--_Blackstone._

In effect, to follow, not to force, the public inclination, to give a
direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the
general sense of the community, is the true end of
legislation.--_Burke._

In the habits of legal men every accusation appears insufficient if they
do not exaggerate it even to calumny. It is thus that justice itself
loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.--_Lamartine._

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it
cruelly.--_Shakespeare._

It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make
them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as
virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently
the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the
cause of virtue.--_Bolingbroke._

A mouse-trap; easy to enter but not easy to get out of.--_Mrs Balfour._

What can idle laws do with morals?--_Horace._

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it
does not strike the guilty it hits some one else. As every crime creates
a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Learning.~--It adds a precious seeing to the eye.--_Shakespeare._

You are to consider that learning is of great use to society; and though
it may not add to the stock, it is a necessary vehicle to transmit it to
others. Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the
fountain-heads.--_James Northcote._

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.--_Young._

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing
for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to
riches.--_Cicero._

The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but
little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short
flights frequently rep