To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack. - James Fitzjames Stephen

Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man’s eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash