I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.