Justice is incidental to law and order. – John Edgar Hoover

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. – Bertrand Russell, Look, 1954

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised. – Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau