The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.