The Law Is A Horrible Business.

To Say That The Universe Was Here Last Year, Or Millions Of Years Ago, Does Not Explain Its Origin. This Is Still A Mystery. As To The Question Of The Origin Of Things, Man Can Only Wonder And Doubt And Guess.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It.

The Trouble With Law Is Lawyers.

I Am Always Suspicious Of Righteous Indignation. Nothing Is More Cruel Than Righteous Indignation.

Every One Knows That The Heavenly Bodies Move In Certain Paths In Relation To Each Other With Seeming Consistency And Regularity Which We Call [physical] Law. ... No One Attributes Freewill Or Motive To The Material World. Is The Conduct Of Man Or The Other Animals Any More Subject To Whim Or Choice Than The Action Of The Planets? ... We Know That Man's Every Act Is Induced By Motives That Led Or Urged Him Here Or There; That The Sequence Of Cause And Effect Runs Through The Whole Universe, And Is Nowhere More Compelling Than With Man.