Mastering the lawless science of our law,—
That codeless myriad of precedent,
That wilderness of single instances.


Aylmer's Field (1864); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Mastering the lawless science of our law,— That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,— That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,— That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.

Mastering the lawless science of our law,— That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances.