Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
Systems die; instincts remain.
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.
Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.