LAW AND LAWYERS.
Law-makers should not be law-breakers.
Parliament has made it penal to pollute the air of towns with smoke, and the Builder complains that more smoke issues from parliament's own chimneys than from any six factories in London.
Abundance of law breaks no law.
It is safer to exceed than to fall short of what the law requires.
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
A pennyweight of love is worth a pound weight of law.
So much more cogent is the one than the other.