The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

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.

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Systems die; instincts remain.