Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

If I have to choose between a person who has everything but loyalty and another who has nothing but loyalty, I go for the latter. Go loyal!

Meanwhile,” Simon added, “I wanted to tell you that lately I‘ve been cross-dressing. Also, I‘m sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

Sadness is very close to hate.

Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.