An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

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

Uncertain justice by a verdict is much better than certain injustice.

God help the patient.

The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.