"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare—to interpret law, and not to make law, or …"

"Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all …"

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences; for there is no worse torture than the torture of l…"

"Non est interpretatio, sed divinatio, quae recedit a litera."

"It is the Judges (as we have seen) that make the common law:— Do you know how they make it? Just as a man makes laws …"

"I will always shake hands with a man who offers it to me."

"There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence a…"

"The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by."

"The state in commissioning its judges has commanded them to judge, but neither in constitution nor in statute has it …"

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."