Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.