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

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.