The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Law never is, but is always about to be.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
The law always limits every power it gives.
I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Either the law exists, or it does not.