The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly corresponds, so far as it goes, with what is then understood to be convenient; but its form … - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Philosophy may have gained by the attempts in recent years to look through the fiction to the fact and to generalize corporations, partnerships, and other groups into a single conception. But to generalize is to omit, and, in this instance, to omit one characteristic of the complete corporation, as called into being under modern statutes, that is most important in business and law.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

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.