1. As the late Victor Schwab would put it, "our mind is a montage of hasty impressions, fuzzy generalities, bromidic wall-motto sentiments, self-justifications and sentimentalities."

2. “Generally, the Courts of law shall not be carried away by mere sentimentalities or the Conjunctures or surmises or the status of the accused as habitual offender but bound to proceed on the basis of legal evidence alone,” Justice Shankar said