Most of my time is spent in doing as well as I can the work immediately at hand. One hopes that by doing quietly and without parade as solid work as … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I look at man through Malthus's glasses –as like flies– here swept away by pestilence – there multiplying unduly and paying for it. I think morals are not the last word but only a check for varying intensity upon force, which seems to me likely to remain the ultimate as far as I can look ahead.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.