Frederick Pollock quotes:

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.

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.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse.

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.

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

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.

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.

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.

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.