I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of ‘laws’ to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one’s personal pulls and one’s private views to the law of which we are all guaradians – those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that’s all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation’s resources and talents.

The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.

While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine’s fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn’t his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.