Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. Frederick Pollock Read Quote
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. Frederick Pollock Read Quote
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. Frederick Pollock Read Quote
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. Frederick Pollock Read Quote
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard. Frederick Pollock Read Quote
