Lawyers Spend Their Professional Careers Shoveling Smoke.

The Language Of Judicial Decision Is Mainly The Language Of Logic. And The Logical Method And Form Flatter That Longing For Certainty And For Repose Which Is In Every Human Mind. But Certainty Generally Is Illusion, And Repose Is Not The Destiny Of Man.

I Should Like To See Any Kind Of Man, Distinguishable From A Gorilla, That Some Good And Even Pretty Woman Could Not Shape A Husband Out Of.

To Be Civilized Is To Be Potentially Master Of All Possible Ideas, And That Means That One Has Got Beyond Being Shocked, Although One Preserves One's Own Moral Aesthetic Preferences.

Every Now And Then A Man's Mind Is Stretched By A New Idea Or Sensation, And Never Shrinks Back To Its Former Dimensions.

The Difference Between Gossip And Philosophy Lies Only In One's Way Of Taking A Fact.