Since We Are Men, We Will Play

Those Of Us Who Have Come To Years Of Discretion And More, Must Often Take To Retrospect, And Seek To Appraise The Outcome Of Our Lives.

Our Dangers, As It Seems To Me, Are Not From The Outrageous But From The Conforming; Not From Those Who Rarely And Under The Lurid Glare Of Obloquy Upset Our Moral Complaisance, Or Shock Us With Unaccustomed Conduct, But From Those, The Mass Of Us, Who Take Their Virtues And Their Tastes, Like Their Shirts And Their Furniture, From The Limited Patterns Which The Market Offers.

How Long Shall We Blunder Along Without The Aid Of Unpartisan And Authoritative Scientific Assistance In The Administration Of Justice, No One Knows; But All Fair Persons Not Conventionalized By Provincial Legal Habits Of Mind Ought, I Should Think, Unite To Effect Some Change.

It Is Enough That We Set Out To Mold The Motley Stuff Of Life Into Some Form Of Our Own Choosing; When We Do, The Performance Is Itself The Wage.

The Profession Of The Law Of Which He [a Judge] Is A Part Is Charged With The Articulation And Final Incidence Of The Successive Efforts Towards Justice; It Must Feel The Circulation Of The Communal Blood Or It Will Wither And Drop Off, A Useless Member.