Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

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

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.