#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.

#3533. The law disregards trifles.

#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.

#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.

#3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done.

#3528. The law respects form less than substance.

#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.