George Jessel (jurist)

"Professional advice in England is confined to legal advice."

"I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt."

"For wide learning and deep insight his judgments are, perhaps, unsurpassed."

"It must not be forgotten that the rules of Courts of equity are not, like the rules of the common law, supposed to have been established from time immemorial. It is perfectly well known that they have…"

"I never did approve, when at the Bar, and I do not approve now, when on the Bench, of the practice of not deciding a substantial question when it is fairly raised between the parties and argued, simpl…"

"I am not, as I consider, to decide cases in favour of fools or idiots, but in favour of ordinary English people, who understand English when they see it, and are not deceived by any difference in type…"

"This case reminds me of one in which I likened the plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes."

"Mistakes are the inevitable lot of mankind."