Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.

Necessity knows no law except to conquer.

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.

It is better to live unknown to the law.