Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism.

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.