[B]etween impulsive hearts and compulsive authority, you have consistently seasoned justice with mercy, and invigorated mercy with justice.

Address of Professor Bernadotte Perrin, Presenting to Professor Henry Parks Wright a Silver Medal from the Members of the Faculty of Yale College, 1884–1909, on June 25, 1909, at the Close of his Twenty-five Years of Service as Dean (1909)

In praise of Henry Parks Wright, referencing Portia's "quality of mercy" in The Merchant of Venice, IV, 1