“Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.”

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

The law is a horrible business.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.

The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.