Benjamin N. Cardozo Quote

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.


On types of judicial writing, in "Law and Literature" in Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 10.


As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness....

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness....

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness....

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness....