The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Every human - especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair - should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.