If, however, the learned gentleman had substituted the word law for blasphemy, he would have been much nearer the truth.
Of all the evils with which this country is afflicted, that of an excessive passion for law is the greatest.

The sum paid annually in taxes is nothing to that which is spent in litigation.

Go into our courts of justice, and you will often see sixty or seventy lawyers at a time; follow them home, and you will find that they are residing in the fashionable parts of the town, and living in the most expensive manner.

Look at the lists of the two houses of parliament, and you will find lawyers predominate in the House of Commons; and, in the upper house, more peers who owe their origin to the law, than have sprung from the army and navy united.

There is scarcely a street of any respectability without an attorney, not to mention the numbers that are congregated in the inns of court.