“Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason”

“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty”

“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things”

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.”

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”