Decide promptly, but never give any reasons for your decisions. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

There is no entering into the secret thoughts of a man's heart.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.