Precepts, like Fomentations, must be rubbed into us; and with a rough Hand too.
If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.
There is more Learning now required to explain a Law made, than went to the making it.
The Law hath so many Contradictions, and Varyings from itself, that the Law may not improperly be called a Law-breaker.
It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel.
The Clergy and the Lawyers, like the Free-Masons, may be supposed to take an Oath not to tell the Secret.
The Men of Law have a Biass to their calling in the Interpretations they make of the Law.
Of Parliaments.
The Parliaments are so altered from their original Constitution, that between the Court and the Country, the House, instead of being united, is like Troops of a contrary Party facing one another, and watching their Advantage.