"We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a s…"

"It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests whi…"

"Yet the whole structure of the common law is an obvious denial of this theory; it stands as a monument slowly raised,…"

"The law, being an inherited accumulation, imposes itself on each generation willy-nilly. Any society whose members en…"

"With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, a…"

"Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself."

"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would …"

"You may ask what then will become of the fundamental principles of equity and fair play which our constitutions enshr…"

"The day has clearly gone forever of societies small enough for their members to have personal acquaintance with one a…"

"Life is not a thing of knowing only — nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmai…"