Charles Macklin

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.”

“A great deal of the gentility of nowadays is made up of suspicion, hearsay, and spleen.”

“Sir, I am not one of those who are always weighing what they are to say, from the fear of giving offence.”

“The glorious uncertainty of the law.”