Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.