Frederick Pollock

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.