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

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

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.

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

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

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

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.