“A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.”
“The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.”
“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
“I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
“The judge does not make the law. It is the people that make the law. It is the duty of a judge to do justice, but it is only the people that can be just”