“The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.”

“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”

“We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”

“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.”