"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
[this applies to the successful practice of law as much as any other single maxim I know of]
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." [In my experience this is a Judge favorite]
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
[Another Judge favorite I have found]
"God always takes the simplest way."
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
