To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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.