Famous quotes containing the words chief and/or law:
“The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out the great resources of Nature, and at last taxes her beyond her resources; for man naturally dies out of her.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experienceby experience.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)