Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast..

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill ….

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since the….

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial..

To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in ….

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any specie….

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases ….

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization..

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient..

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness..

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless..

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile..