The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. – Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe

Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor. – Bill Messing, quoted in Dream World, by Fred Woodworth

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington