Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.