Ryan, the most liberal of Judges, lends us his best assistance.

I heartily hope, and fully believe, that we shall put the whole Penal law, and the whole law of Criminal Procedure, into a moderately sized volume.

I begin to take a very warm interest in this work.

It is, indeed, one of the finest employments of the intellect that it is easy to conceive.

I ought, however, to tell you that, the more progress I make as a legislator, the more intense my contempt for the mere technical study of law becomes.
I am deep in the examination of the political theories of the old philosophers.