"It is not the function of a Court of justice to enforce or give effect to moral obligations which do not carry with t…"

"It is for the legislature to alter the law if Parliament in its wisdom thinks an alteration desirable."

"People cannot escape from the obligation of a statute by putting a private interpretation upon its language."

"To protect those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which every one owes to society."

"You may not sell the cow and sup the milk."

"It is a public scandal when the law is forced to uphold a dishonest act."

"That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another t…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"